Cultural Capital in Context: Heterogeneous Returns to Cultural Capital Across Schooling Environments
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Cultural Capital in Context: Heterogeneous Returns to Cultural Capital Across Schooling Environments. / Andersen, Ida Gran; Jæger, Mads Meier.
In: Social Science Research, Vol. 50, 2015, p. 177-188.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Cultural Capital in Context: Heterogeneous Returns to Cultural Capital Across Schooling Environments
AU - Andersen, Ida Gran
AU - Jæger, Mads Meier
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This paper tests two competing explanations of differences in returns to cultural capital across schooling environments: Cultural reproduction (cultural capital yields a higher returns in high-achieving environments than in low-achieving ones) and cultural mobility (cultural capital yields higher returns in low-achieving environments). Using multilevel mixture models, empirical results from analyses based on PISA data from three countries (Canada, Germany, and Sweden) show that returns to cultural capital tend to be higher in low-achieving schooling environments than in high-achieving ones. These results principally support the cultural mobility explanation and suggest that research should pay explicit attention to the institutional contexts in which cultural capital is converted into educational success.
AB - This paper tests two competing explanations of differences in returns to cultural capital across schooling environments: Cultural reproduction (cultural capital yields a higher returns in high-achieving environments than in low-achieving ones) and cultural mobility (cultural capital yields higher returns in low-achieving environments). Using multilevel mixture models, empirical results from analyses based on PISA data from three countries (Canada, Germany, and Sweden) show that returns to cultural capital tend to be higher in low-achieving schooling environments than in high-achieving ones. These results principally support the cultural mobility explanation and suggest that research should pay explicit attention to the institutional contexts in which cultural capital is converted into educational success.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Cultural capital
KW - Educational success
KW - Schooling environment
KW - PISA
KW - Multilevel mixture model
U2 - 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2014.11.015
DO - 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2014.11.015
M3 - Journal article
VL - 50
SP - 177
EP - 188
JO - Social Science Research
JF - Social Science Research
SN - 0049-089X
ER -
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