SOSC 103D Social Inequality in HK

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SOSC 103DSocial Inequality in HK

• Lecture 20
• Persistent Inequality in Education

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Educational Inequality in HK

• Composition of University Students in 1981 and
  2001
• (David Post, 2003 p.558)

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Education and Social Inequality
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Educational inequality?!

• Poorer grades
• ? Less likely to get into university
• The class differences in school performance
• or examination grades
• Genetic Effects
• Class differences in IQ
• Lack of endowment for educational success

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Educational inequality?! (cont)

• 2. Income effects
• Direct buying assistance with education
• Indirect general living condition
• Lower income
• Less facilities and assistance
• Poorer grades and performance
• Less likely to get into university

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Other cultural factors

• 3. Cultural effects on school performance
• Use of language (Basil Bernstein)

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Other cultural factors

• Importance of acquiring the right culture
  (Cultural Capital)
• Newspaper reading
• Type of music
• Leisure activities museum, galleries, travel
• Educational standards reflect the unequal
  structure
• Transform the economic advantages to cultural
• Capital

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• Is school grades the only criteria?!
• Role of cultural capital in HKs educational
  system
• School Admission
• Cultural advantages

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Educational Inequality

• Reproduction of labour and class
• correspondence principle (Bowles and Gintis)
• reproduce the occupational division
• focus on the structure of social relationships in
  education
• relationships of authority
• relate the levels of education to occupational
  levels

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• Suggested Readings
• Ball, Stephen (1986) Education, London Longman,
  ch. 4 5