Do Heterophilous Networks Work? Investigating School-Based Social Capital and the University Choice Process among Less-Privileged Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong

Autor/in	Gao, Fang
Titel	Do Heterophilous Networks Work? Investigating School-Based Social Capital and the University Choice Process among Less-Privileged Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong
Quelle	In: Race, Ethnicity and Education, 21 (2018) 6, S.827-842 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1361-3324
DOI	10.1080/13613324.2017.1395329
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Social Capital; College Choice; Social Networks; Minority Group Students; Economically Disadvantaged; Working Class; Ethnic Groups; College Students; Expectation; Access to Information; Hong Kong + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Sozialkapital; Studienortwahl; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Arbeiterklasse; Ethnie; Collegestudent; Expectancy; Erwartung; Hongkong
Abstract	Much of the existing literature on social capital and university choice processes postulates that family networks of underrepresented students from poor and minority backgrounds are disadvantaged in university resources and in turn deficit in social capital returns. The literature implies that school-based networks are essential to fill the university information voids at home. Less research, however, poses questions about whether the university resources occupied by school personnel are automatically available to less-privileged minority youths. To grasp the dynamic interplay between ethnicity, class and school-based social capital, this study drew on Lin's conceptualisation of homophilous and heterophilous social networking and explored the university choice and application processes among poor and working-class South/Southeast Asian minority students in Hong Kong. The participants' accounts uncovered the restrictions of school networks on norms, expectations and accessibility of information sources. The research results raise concerns about how to activate both homophilous and heterophilous ties for minority youths' widening access to higher education. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01