Urban Families For Their Children's Educational Choices And Influencing Factors Analysis

As a part of social system, education itself is a social phenomenon, and it is a branch of sociology as well. With the social development and improvement of education needs, the relation between education and person, family, society is becoming closer and closer, and thus triggers the new social behavior------education choices.Guided by the rational choice theory, the thesis takes the urban family as the basic research unit and has the research of the education choices of the urban families for their children. The thesis consists of the following six parts: "Introduction"; "Literature"; "Theoretical frameworks and research methods"; "The education choices of the urbanfamilies for their children------taking Ji'nan for example"; "Analysis for familyeducation choices"; "Discussion and policy recommendations".In the introduction the author gives the background of the family education choices, that is the introduction of market mechanism expanding the space of education choices and giving families the ability to choose.The first part is an overview of the literature. Through the discussion of the research results, the research object and the research perspective is conductedout------education choices of urban families and the study will take the perspective fromsociology.The second part first defines the meaning of the individual education choices, and then introduces the theoretical framework, including economic capital, social capital, cultural capital and rational choice theory. The choices of different families closely relate their capital accumulation: they will choose education organization or education contents according to their own economic capital accumulation, cultural capital accumulation and social capital accumulation to get the largest benefit. Finally, it is the main research methodology------interview and literature.The third part is the Survey from Ji'nan City. This part analyzes the current situation of education choices, features and the family's education choices under the...