A Study On The Correlation Between The Higher Education Enrollment Expansion And The Social Stratum Closure

After 10 years large-scale expansion, our country's higher education entered into the popular stage. If more lower class members can make use of this way to undergo social mobility, which will be helpful to reduce the social stratum closure, and expand the middle class, reduce differentiations, make the social structure more rationalize. But the key point of the procedure depends on the issue, "whether or not can the higher education enrollment expansion reduce the social stratum closure. In view of this, this article aims at inspecting the roll of the higher education enrollment expansion on the social stratum closure.For the clearer understanding of the logic process of social stratum, I'd like to make a brief review of the indexes of the traditional social stratum, and take the realities of our country and the aims of this article studied into consideration, and then propose the indexes of this article, that is, the economical capital, the cultural capital, the prestigious capital and the social capital, then use existing literature material to inspect the effect of the higher education enrollment expansion to the social stratum closure from the above four perspectives, especially, the effect of the higher education enrollment expansion to the offspring of the lower classThe economical capital mainly manifests itself in the education returns ratio. recent years the increase rate of higher education's returns tends to drop, so the differential boundary of the original social stratum was still very defined. Although the higher education enrollment expansion enable the offspring of the lower class to go to college, but the university diploma now has litter influence on the economical capital's than before, the difference between stratum was still expanding. To begin with, because quality difference of higher education, the distribution of different classes on the education system still has the marks of the social stratum, i.e. in the process of cultural capital, the original social stratum structure also to display is effect; what's more, after the transformation of higher education from the outstanding person to the popular one and the new system is imperfect, university student's prestigious capital drops, the help of the higher education to the social mobility seems to be weaken; In the last, because the operation of social capital, the different social stratum children have difference in qualified education opportunity and the post in career, this is the obstacle of the lower class who cherish the dream to realize the social mobility through higher education.Because our country's higher education enrollment expansion doesn't reduces the social stratum constantly, but in the to-and-fro movement, that is to say, between reduce and increase the social stratum closure. Therefore I think that there is an inverted-U curve relations between the higher education enrollment expansion and the social stratum closure, I have to emphasize that currently, our higher education is on the apex of the curve. I think along with the higher education enrollment expansion, the social stratum closure will certainly to reduce, and I also thought that this kind of inverted-U curve has different types in different area, namely the eastern developed local U curve's epoch must be earlier than the mid-west area, this is why the higher education enrollment expansion can reduce or increase the social stratum closure at the same time.