The Role of Social Capital/Guanxi in Students’Decision-Making about Postgraduate Education in China:An Explorative Case Study  

作　　者：LIU Dan 

机构地区：[1]School of English Education,Guangdong University of Foreign Studies,Guangzhou 510420,China [2]Faculty of Business&Law,Coventry University,Coventry CV1 5FB,United Kingdom

出　　处：《Frontiers of Education in China》2020年第3期453-481,共29页中国高等学校学术文摘·教育学（英文）

基　　金：supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Grant(No.2019M652836);Social Sciences and Humanities Youth Foundation of Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China(No.20YJCZH091);Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation(No.2019A1515110873).

摘　　要：This paper explores how the concept of social capital developed by Bourdieu and Coleman as well as the Chinese concept of guanxi(关系)or relationships facilitates students’access to postgraduate education in a case study of a university in southeast China.The study comprises an initial survey of 381 first-year postgraduate students and a series of interviews with 30 participants.Social capital and guanxi inform analysis of the data.The results reveal that students from different social backgrounds employ different forms of social capital and guanxi networks in their decision-making about postgraduate education.They contribute to conceptualizations of how social capital is generated through guanxi in the Chinese educational context.

关 键 词：social capital GUANXI students’choice student decision-making postgraduate education China 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]