Medical Class Vocational College Students' Career Maturity Influencing Factors

The main purpose of this study is to explore the principle of the factors which affect the college students' career maturity. Theories of human capital, Bourdieu's cultural capital are discussed. The paper bases on a survey on a sample of 371 students at Shanghai Institute of Health Sciences. The results shows that:human capital theory has considerable explanation power. It means that human capital such as academic study has significant impact on the college students' career maturity. However, the study also found that Bourdieu's theory also has explanation power. In some factors of career maturity, Bourdieu's cultural capital theory has more explanatory than the human capital theory.