The Role of Social Capital/Guanxi in Students’Decision-Making about Postgraduate Education in China:An Explorative Case Study
作者机构：School of English EducationGuangdong University of Foreign StudiesGuangzhou 510420China Faculty of Business&LawCoventry UniversityCoventry CV1 5FBUnited Kingdom
出 版 物：《Frontiers of Education in China》 (中国高等学校学术文摘·教育学（英文）)
年 卷 期：2020年第15卷第3期
页 面：453-481页
学科分类：0402[教育学-心理学(可授教育学、理学学位）] 0502[文学-外国语言文学] 050201[文学-英语语言文学] 0401[教育学-教育学] 05[文学]
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)
主 题：social capital guanxi students’choice student decision-making postgraduate education China
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 *** study comprises an initial survey of 381 first-year postgraduate students and a series of interviews with 30 *** capital and guanxi inform analysis of the *** results reveal that students from different social backgrounds employ different forms of social capital and guanxi networks in their decision-making about postgraduate *** contribute to conceptualizations of how social capital is generated through guanxi in the Chinese educational context.
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