The Impact of Financial and Cultural Resources on Educational Attainment in the Netherlands

Graaf, P.M. de

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“…Close to human capital theory (Becker, 1983), this perspective ties the effect of cultural capital on scholastic performance to cognitive abilities constructed in the framework of cultural practices and attitudes in student's family environment. Emphasis is on how the degree to which reading is practiced in the family environment conditions development of a taste and ability for abstraction (De Graaf, 1986). The impact of reading on scholastic performance is subject to debate, however.…”

Section: The Effect Of Cultural Capital On Scholastic Performance: Rementioning

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Reading and Television-Watching : Changes in the Cultural Role of the School in the Age of Mass Education

Coulangeon¹

2009

Revue Française De Sociologie

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What are the cultural effects of generalized access to upper secondary education, which became effective in France in the 1980s and 1990s? Data on reading and television-watching suggest that reading is in decline, a decline concentrated among high school and higher education graduates, and that television occupies a greater place in the lives of generations who attended school in the 1980s and 1990s than in those of the preceding generations. These two developments result from a complex combination of the "net" and structural effects of mass education. Mass education has slowed the decline of reading and mitigated the increase in television-watching: the proportional weight in the population at large of categories most likely to read heavily and least likely to be intensive TV watchers -i.e., high school and higher education graduates-has grown, as reading and television-watching levels among the highest educated have gradually, over the generations, come to resemble those for the less educated. This combined development may be interpreted in two ways that are not necessarily mutually exclusive: 1) both the decline of reading and the increase in television-watching reflect a change in the cultural function of education, a change in turn due to changes in teaching methods and curriculum content reinforced by the sharp rise in influence of the mass media; but 2) these changes also reflect morphological changes in the world of upper secondary and higher education students: with the generalizing of access to the baccalauréat [French high school-leaving degree], the proportion of "inheritors" has considerably fallen. The changes can therefore be read persuasively both as a sign that schooling in France has lost some of its cultural authority and that cultural gaps within the generations who experienced mass education have narrowed.

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Section: The Effect Of Cultural Capital On Scholastic Performance: Rementioning

confidence: 99%

Reading and Television-Watching : Changes in the Cultural Role of the School in the Age of Mass Education

Coulangeon¹

2009

Revue Française De Sociologie

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“…Cultural resources refer to parents' educational levels, their linguistic skills, and their attitude towards dominant cultural values (Bourdieu, 1977;DiMaggio, 1982;De Graaf, 1986). Parents' cultural resources provide children with the appropriate abilities and attitudes for being successful in school thus giving them a 'scholastic lead' which seems to increase throughout the remainder of the educational career.…”

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The Effects of Family Structure on the Educational Attainment of Siblings in Hungary

Eijck¹,

Graaf²

1995

European Sociological Review

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In this article we examine the impact of family structure on educational attainment in Hungary. Using a data-set collected in 1983 with information on all siblings of 17146 primary respondents, the effects of family size, birth order, and spacing were investigated. Hypotheses on these effects were based on sibling resource-dilution theory, which was modified for the case of Hungary, where educational policy has weakened the effects of parents' material resources. In a country in which cultural resources are predominant, resource-dilution theory offers different predictions. As expected, family size had a substantial negative effect on schooling. This effect increased over birth cohorts. The effect of birth order was curvilinear: in larger families the oldest and youngest siblings attained the highest educational qualifications. Effects of spacing were significant, indicating that close spacing affects schooling positively. The results corroborate sibling resource-dilution theory INTRODUCTION

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“…When it comes to parental cultural assets and the intergenerational transmission of these family-specific resources, an often-tested and corroborated presumption is Bourdieu's cultural reproduction hypothesis. From this idea it follows that in highbrow families certain parental cultural dispositions benefit children's educational success, whereas a lack of these highbrow cultural resources in lower class families hinders children's educational progress (De Graaf, 1986;Kalmijn & Kraaykamp, 1996).…”

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Parental media socialization and educational attainment: Resource or disadvantage?

Notten

Kraaykamp

2010

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

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This article analyzes the long-term effects of parental media socialization on children's educational attainment. Data on 8316 individuals from 3257 families in the Netherlands is used to estimate hierarchical models that distinguish between family-specific (socialization) and individual-level effects. The study reveals that parental reading and television socialization plays a meaningful role in predicting children's success in education. Whereas parental time spent viewing television is disadvantageous for a child's educational career, parental reading intensity enhances educational success. Moreover, not only does media exposure play a relevant role, the content of parental media consumption also matters. Parents who prefer highbrow literature benefit their children's educational career, whereas a preference for watching popular TV programs is disadvantageous for a child's educational success. Next to the parental example of media consumption, media guidance provided by parents is scrutinized. Results indicate that parent-child interactions on reading positively affect children's educational attainment.

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The Impact of Financial and Cultural Resources on Educational Attainment in the Netherlands

Cited by 220 publications

References 10 publications

Reading and Television-Watching : Changes in the Cultural Role of the School in the Age of Mass Education

Reading and Television-Watching : Changes in the Cultural Role of the School in the Age of Mass Education

The Effects of Family Structure on the Educational Attainment of Siblings in Hungary

Parental media socialization and educational attainment: Resource or disadvantage?

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