TY - JOUR
T1 - The influence of family background on educational expectations
T2 - a comparative study
AU - Li, Wangyang
AU - Xie, Yu
N1 - Funding Information:
The research was partially supported by the Center for Social Research at Peking University, the Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China at Princeton University, the National Natural Science Foundation of China [Grant No. 71461137001], the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [Grant No. 2017M610053].
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PY - 2020/5/26
Y1 - 2020/5/26
N2 - It has been well documented that East Asian students in primary and secondary education academically outperform their Western counterparts. One prominent explanation points to the role of culture. This study explores the cultural explanation from a comparative perspective. Analyzing data from mainland China, Taiwan, South Korea, the U.S., Germany, and Australia, we examine the variation across social contexts in the importance of family SES to parents’ and children’s educational expectations, paying particular attention to comparison between East-Asian and Western societies. We find that educational expectations are much less dependent on family background in East Asian societies than in the West, in that parents and children in the former all tend to hold high educational expectations, irrespective of family socioeconomic status.
AB - It has been well documented that East Asian students in primary and secondary education academically outperform their Western counterparts. One prominent explanation points to the role of culture. This study explores the cultural explanation from a comparative perspective. Analyzing data from mainland China, Taiwan, South Korea, the U.S., Germany, and Australia, we examine the variation across social contexts in the importance of family SES to parents’ and children’s educational expectations, paying particular attention to comparison between East-Asian and Western societies. We find that educational expectations are much less dependent on family background in East Asian societies than in the West, in that parents and children in the former all tend to hold high educational expectations, irrespective of family socioeconomic status.
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U2 - 10.1080/21620555.2020.1738917
DO - 10.1080/21620555.2020.1738917
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85082405496
SN - 2162-0555
VL - 52
SP - 269
EP - 294
JO - Chinese Sociological Review
JF - Chinese Sociological Review
IS - 3
ER -