Gap Year Students in Lithuania: The Value Orientations of Children from Wealthy Social Groups

Autor/inn/en	Leonavicius, Vylius; Ozolinciute, Egle
Titel	Gap Year Students in Lithuania: The Value Orientations of Children from Wealthy Social Groups
Quelle	In: International Studies in Sociology of Education, 25 (2015) 1, S.38-62 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0962-0214
DOI	10.1080/09620214.2014.990252
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Social Status; Advantaged; Semi Structured Interviews; Stopouts; College Bound Students; Higher Education; Student Characteristics; Student Attitudes; Social Capital; Exit Examinations; Preferences; Opinions; Behavior Change; Career Choice; Student Educational Objectives; Attribution Theory; Lithuania + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Sozialer Status; Ausstieg; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Schülerverhalten; Sozialkapital; Final examination; Abschlussprüfung; Lehrmeinung; Litauen
Abstract	The paper seeks to understand the trajectories of students who defer entry to university. The study was conducted in Lithuania, a former Soviet Union republic. The phenomenon of a "gap year" is usually associated with young people, who decide not to enter higher education schools immediately after receiving secondary education, instead they choose to spend a year volunteering, working or engaging in other activities. This article analyses the choice of taking a gap year from the perspective of rational choice theory, complemented by human development theory, which was developed by R. Inglehart and his colleagues. The latter theory allows discovering relation between the spreading of the gap year phenomenon in developed European countries and the emergence as well as development of post-materialist values from the macro-level perspective. The theoretical analysis is based on semi-structured interview data collected in Lithuania. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01