A qualitative illustration of the operation of secondary effect of social stratification: Decisions of community-college students in seeking a transfer in Hong Kong

A qualitative illustration of the operation of secondary effect of social stratification: Decisions of community-college students in seeking a transfer in Hong Kong

• Wong, Yi Lee The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Journal of Education, 203(4), 856-864, 2023

SAGE Publications

2023

• Q Philosophy of Education, Educational System & School At Different Levels
  • QG Adult, Lifelong & Continuing Education
    • QGA Community Education

Class Community College Educational Choice Qualitative Analysis Secondary Effect of Social Stratification

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

This paper offers a qualitative analysis of decisions of 64 community-college students in seeking a transfer in Hong Kong. In weighing a number of educational options and then offers, with a similar level of desirability in some cases, in order to achieve their transfers, advantaged-class and disadvantaged-class respondents struggled with different logics of reasoning and negotiated anxiously with their changing structural realities. This qualitative analysis addresses the contextual, processual and emotional aspects of their decision making and provides a more convincing illustration of how the secondary effect of social stratification operates against a changing landscape of higher education. Copyright © 2023 SAGE Publications.

• English

Journal Articles

• 00220574

• 10.1177/00220574221088499

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/7823ae79

2024-04-09