Social Inequalities of Post-secondary Educational Aspirations: influence of social background, school composition and institutional context

Dupriez, Vincent;Monseur, Christian;Van Campenhoudt, Maud;Lafontaine, Dominique
(2012) European Educational Research Journal — Vol. 11, n° 4, p. 504-519 (2012)

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  • Dupriez, Vincentorcid-logoUCLouvain
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  • Monseur, ChristianUliège
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  • Van Campenhoudt, MaudUCLouvain
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  • Lafontaine, DominiqueUliège
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The first goal of this paper is to assess, for each OECD country, the influence of pupils’ sociocultural background on educational aspirations. The second goal is to explore if, after controlling for educational achievement, the residual influence of sociocultural background is still significant. In addition, we look at whether the sociocultural and academic characteristics of school composition have an additional impact on educational aspirations in this group of countries. Finally, we show that the structural characteristics of school systems moderate the influence of individual characteristics and school composition on educational aspirations.
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Dupriez, V., Monseur, C., Van Campenhoudt, M., & Lafontaine, D. (2012). Social Inequalities of Post-secondary Educational Aspirations: influence of social background, school composition and institutional context. European Educational Research Journal, 11(4), 504-519. https://doi.org/10.2304/eerj.2012.11.4.504 (Original work published 2012)