Social Capital and Educational Achievements: Coleman vs. Bourdieu
Keywords:
Coleman, Bourdieu, social capital, educational achievements, theory of social reproduction, theory of social mobility
Abstract
The influence of social capital on an individual’s educational achievements is the subject of numerous scientific papers. Research on social capital is most frequently based on Coleman’s (1988) or Bourdieu’s (1986) theories of capital, which are related to different paradigms of social theory: whereas Coleman’s approach has its roots in structural functionalism, Bourdieu’s approach contains elements of conflict theory. A number of authors, starting with Bourdieu, attempt to explain and prove that, when connected with the education of individuals, the activity of social capital facilitates social reproduction. Other authors support the notion that social capital is, in fact, a powerful weapon that encourages social mobility. A third group of researchers emphasise that neither of these approaches in isolation can entirety explain the influences of social capital on an individual’s education (Ho, 2003). The present paper offers a review of research focusing on the influences of social capital on educational achievements, while outlining the fundamental differences between the two theoretical approaches that are most frequently used for research of this topic. The aim of the paper is to explain the influence of social capital on an individual’s educational achievements under Bourdieu’s and Coleman’s theoretical concepts, and to establish whether combining the approaches is possible. The conclusion and arguments show that it is legitimate to use all three theoretical approaches.
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Israel, G. D., Beaulieu L. J., & Hartless, G. (2001). The influence of family and community social capital on educational achievements. Rural Sociology, 66(1), 43–68.
Khanchel, H., & Ben Kahla, K. (2013). Mobilizing Bourdieu’s theory in organizational research. Review of General Management, 17(1), 86–94.
Khattab, N. (2003). Explaining educational aspirations of minority students: the role of social capital and students’ perceptions. Social Psychology of Education, 6(4), 283–302.
Lin, N. (1999). Building a network theory of social capital, Connections, 22(1), 28–51.
Lin, N. (2001). Social Capital: A theory of social structure and action. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Lopez, E. (1996). Social capital and the educational performance of Latino and Non Latino youth. San Luis Obispo, CA: Julian Samora Research Institute.
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McNeal, R. B. J. (1999). Parental involvement as social capital: Differential effectiveness on science achievements, truancy, and dropping out. Social Forces, 78(1), 117–144.
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Parcel, T. L., & Dufur, M. (2001). Capital at home and at school: Effects on child social adjustment. Journal of Marriage and Family, 63(1), 32–47.
Pishghadam, R., & Zabihi, R. (2011). Parental education and social and cultural capital in academic achievements. International Journal of English Linguistics, 1(2), 50–57.
Pusztai, G. (2014). The effects of institutional social capital on students’ success in higher education. Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 4(3), 60–73.
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Portes, A., Fernandez-Kelly, P., & Haller W. (2009). The adaptation of the immigrant second generation in America: A theoretical overview and recent evidence. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 35(7), 1077–1104.
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Rose, R. (2000). How much does social capital add to individual health? A survey study of Russians, Social Science and Medicine, 51(9), 1421–1435.
Shucksmith, M. (2000). Endogenous development, social capital and social inclusion perspectives from leader in the UK. Sociologia Ruralis, 40(2), 208–218.
Schuller, T., Baron, S., & Field, J. (2000). Social capital: A review and critique, In S. Baron, J. Field and T. Schuller (Eds.), Social capital: Critical perspectives (pp. 1–38), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Smith, M. H., Beaulieu, L. J., & Israel, G. D. (1992). Effects of human capital and social capital on dropping out of high school in the South. Journal of Research in Rural Education, 8(1), 75–87.
Schaefer-McDaniel, N.J. (2004). Conceptualizing social capital among young people: Toward a new theory. Children, Youth and Environments, 14(1), 140–150.
Sullivan, A. (2001). Cultural capital and educational attainment. Sociology, 35(4), 893–912.
Sullivan (2002). Bourdieu and education: how useful is Bourdieu’s theory for researchers? The Netherlands ‘Journal of Social Sciences, 38(2), 144–166.
Sun, Y. (1999). The contextual effects of community social capital on academic performance. Social sciences Research, 28(4), 403–426.
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Yan, W. (1999). Successful African American students: The role of parental involvement. J. Negro Education, 68(1), 5–22.
Adedokun, O. A. (2007). Social capital and rural adolescents’ educational achievements an aspiration. Doctoral thesis. West Lafayette: Purdue University.
Adler, P. S., & Kwon, S. (2002). Social capital: prospects for a new concept. The Academy of Management Review, 27(1), 17–40.
Babović M. (2005). Socijalne mreže – povezivanje društvenih aktera u sferi ekonomskih aktivnosti. Sociologija, 27(4), 351–371.
Baranović, B., Jugović, I. & Puzić, S. (2014). Važnost obiteljskog podrijetla i roda za uspjeh iz matematike i odabir srednje škole. Revija za socijalnu politiku, 21(3), 285–307.
Bidwell, Ch. E., & Friedkin, N. E. (1988). The Sociology of Education. In N. En. Smelser (Ed.), Handbook of Sociology (pp. 449–471). London: Sage.
Baron, S., Field, J., & Schuller, T. (2000). Social Capital: Critical Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bourdieu, P. (1977). Outline of a theory of practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bourdieu, P. (1984). Distinction: A social critique of the judgment of taste. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
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Bourdieu, P. (1990). In other words: essays towards a reflexive sociology. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Bourdieu, P., & Passeron, J. C. (1990). Reproduction in education, society and culture. Sage, London.
Bruen, T. (2014). Mature students’ narratives of Irish higher education: A critical bourdieusian analysis. Doctoral thesis. Sheffield: University of Sheffield.
Burt, R. S. (1992). Structural holes: The social structure of competition. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
Burt, R. S. (1997). Contingent value of social capital. Administrative Science Quarterly, 42(2), 339–365.
Coleman, J. S. (1988). Social capital in the creation of human capital. The American Journal of Sociology, 94(1) Supplement: Organizations and institutions: Sociological and economic approaches to the analysis of social structure, 95–120.
Coleman, J. S. (1990). The Foundations of Social Theory. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
Coleman, J. S., & Fararo, T. J. (1992). Rational choice theory: Advocacy and critique. Newbury Park: Sage Publications.
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Coleman, J. S., & Hoffer, T. (1987). Public and Private High Schools: The Impact of Communities. New York: Basic Books.
Coleman, J., Campbell, E., Hobson, C., McPartland, J., Mood, A. et al. (1966). Equality of Educational Opportunity. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Office of Education.
Coleman, J., Hoffer, T. & Kilgore, S. (1982). High School Achievements: Public, Catholic and Private Schools Compared, New York: Basic books.
Durlauf, S. (1999). The case “against†social capital focus. Newsletter for the Institute for Research on Poverty, 20(3), 1–5.
Dika, S. L., & Singh, K. (2002). Applications of social capital in educational literature: A critical synthesis. Review of Educational Research, 72(1), 31–60.
Dika, S. L. (2003). The effects of self-processes and social capital on the educational outcomes of high school students. Doctoral thesis. Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Doolan, K. (2009). My Dad Studied Here Too: Social Inequalities and Educational (dis)Advantage in a Croatian Higher Education Setting. Doctoral thesis. Cambridge: Darwin College, Cambridge University.
Douglas Martin (2010). Social class and elite university education: a Bourdieusian analysis. Doctoral thesis. Durham: Duke University.
Dyk, P. H., & Wilson, S. M. (1999). Family-based social capital considerations as predictors of attainments among Appalachian youth. Sociological Inquiry, 69(3), 477–503.
Emirbayer, M., & Johnson, V. (2008). Bourdieu and organizational analysis. Theory and Society. 37(3), 1–44.
Eng, S. (2009). Social capital and academic achievements among children in Cambodia: A close look at family. Doctoral thesis.Texas: Texas Tech University.
Erickson, B. H. (1996). Culture, class, and connections. American Journal of Sociology, 102(27), 217–51.
Fan, J. (2014). The impact of economic capital, social capital and cultural capital: Chinese families’ access to educational resources. Sociology Mind, 4(4), 272–281.
Flap, H. D. (1991). Social capital in the reproduction of inequality. Comparative Sociology of Family, Health and Education, 20(6), 6179–6202.
Foley, M. W., & Edwards, B. (1999). Is it time to disinvest in social capital? Journal of Public Policy, 19(1), 141–173.
Fukuyama, F. (1995). Trust: Social virtues and the creation of prosperity. New York: Free Press.
Fukuyama, F. (2001). Social capital, civil society and development, Third World Quarterly, 22(1), 7–20.
Goffman, E. (1959). The presentation of self in everyday life. New York: Anchor Books.
Goldthorpe, J. (2007). Cultural capital: Some critical observations, Sociologica, 2(1), 1–23.
Golubović N., & Golubović S. (2007). Alternativni pristupi konceptualizaciji društvenog kapitala, Ekonomski anali, 1, 174–175.
Grossman, E. (2013). An examination of Putnam’s, Coleman’s, and Bourdieu’s conceptualizations of social capital and the structural differences across class, race, and gender groups. Doctoral thesis. Akron: The Graduate Faculty, University of Akron.
Haralambos, M., & Holborn M. (2002). Sociologija: teme i perspektive. Zagreb: Golden marketing.
Harper, S. R., & Griffin, K. A. (2011). Opportunity beyond affirmative action: How low-income and working-class black male achievers access highly selective, high-cost colleges and universities. Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy, 17(1), 43–60.
Ho, S. C. (2003). Home School Collaboration and Creation of Social Capital. Hong Kong Journal of Sociology 4(1), 57–85.
Hou, L., Li, F., & Zheng, Q. (2008). The impact of family background on the access to quantity and quality of higher education—from social stratification perspective. Journal of Higher Education, 29(10), 39–45.
Hofferth, S., Boisjoly, J., & Duncan, G. (1998). Parents’ extrafamilial resources and children’s school attainment. Sociology of Education, 71(3), 246–248.
Horvat, E. M., & Antonio, A. L. (1999). Hey, those shoes are out of uniform: African American girls in an elite high school and the Importance of habitus. Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 30(3), 317–342.
Israel, G. D., Beaulieu L. J., & Hartless, G. (2001). The influence of family and community social capital on educational achievements. Rural Sociology, 66(1), 43–68.
Khanchel, H., & Ben Kahla, K. (2013). Mobilizing Bourdieu’s theory in organizational research. Review of General Management, 17(1), 86–94.
Khattab, N. (2003). Explaining educational aspirations of minority students: the role of social capital and students’ perceptions. Social Psychology of Education, 6(4), 283–302.
Lin, N. (1999). Building a network theory of social capital, Connections, 22(1), 28–51.
Lin, N. (2001). Social Capital: A theory of social structure and action. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Lopez, E. (1996). Social capital and the educational performance of Latino and Non Latino youth. San Luis Obispo, CA: Julian Samora Research Institute.
Loury, G. (1977). A dynamic theory of racial income differences. In P. Wallace, A. LaMond, (Eds.), Women, Minorities, and Employment Discrimination (pp. 153–188). Michigan: Lexington Books.
McNeal, R. B. J. (1999). Parental involvement as social capital: Differential effectiveness on science achievements, truancy, and dropping out. Social Forces, 78(1), 117–144.
Mikiewicz, P., Torfi, J., Gudmundsson, J. G., Blondal, K. S., & Korczewska, D. M. (2011). Social capital and education: Comparative research between Poland and Iceland, final report. Wroclaw: University of Lower Silesia.
Myers, K. (2005). Racetalk: Racism hiding in plain sight. Maryland: Rowman and Lettlefield Publishing group.
Palmer, R. T., & Dancy, T. E., II. (2008). Shaping success among Black males in an HBCU: study of barriers and benefits. Georgia Journal of College Student Affairs, 22(1), 59–22.
Palmer, R. T., & Gasman, M. (2008). It takes a village to raise a child: the role of social capital in promoting academic success for African American men at a black college. Journal of College Student Development, 49(1), 52–70.
Parcel, T. L., & Dufur, M. (2001). Capital at home and at school: Effects on child social adjustment. Journal of Marriage and Family, 63(1), 32–47.
Pishghadam, R., & Zabihi, R. (2011). Parental education and social and cultural capital in academic achievements. International Journal of English Linguistics, 1(2), 50–57.
Pusztai, G. (2014). The effects of institutional social capital on students’ success in higher education. Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 4(3), 60–73.
Portes, A., (1998). Social capital: its origins and applications in modern sociology. Annual Review of Sociology, 24(1), 1–24.
Portes, A., Fernandez-Kelly, P., & Haller W. (2009). The adaptation of the immigrant second generation in America: A theoretical overview and recent evidence. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 35(7), 1077–1104.
Putnam, R. D. (1993). The prosperous community. The American Prospect, 4(13), 35–42.
Puzić, S., Doolan, K., & Dolenec, D. (2006). Socijalna dimenzija “Bolonjskog procesa†i (ne) jednakost šansi visokog obrazovanja: neka hrvatska iskustva. Sociologija sela, 44(2–3), 221–243.
Ra, E. (2011). Understanding the role of economic, cultural, and social capital and habitus in student college choice: An investigation of student, family, and school contexts. Doctoral thesis. Michigan: School of Education, University of Michigan.
Reay, D., David, M. E., & Ball, S. (2005). Degrees of Choice: social class, race and gender in higher education. Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Books.
Richardson, J. B., Jr. (2009). Men do matter: Ethnographic insights on the socially supportive role of the African American uncle in the lives of inner-city African American male youth. Journal of Family Issues, 30(8), 1041–1069.
Rose, R. (2000). How much does social capital add to individual health? A survey study of Russians, Social Science and Medicine, 51(9), 1421–1435.
Shucksmith, M. (2000). Endogenous development, social capital and social inclusion perspectives from leader in the UK. Sociologia Ruralis, 40(2), 208–218.
Schuller, T., Baron, S., & Field, J. (2000). Social capital: A review and critique, In S. Baron, J. Field and T. Schuller (Eds.), Social capital: Critical perspectives (pp. 1–38), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Smith, M. H., Beaulieu, L. J., & Israel, G. D. (1992). Effects of human capital and social capital on dropping out of high school in the South. Journal of Research in Rural Education, 8(1), 75–87.
Schaefer-McDaniel, N.J. (2004). Conceptualizing social capital among young people: Toward a new theory. Children, Youth and Environments, 14(1), 140–150.
Sullivan, A. (2001). Cultural capital and educational attainment. Sociology, 35(4), 893–912.
Sullivan (2002). Bourdieu and education: how useful is Bourdieu’s theory for researchers? The Netherlands ‘Journal of Social Sciences, 38(2), 144–166.
Sun, Y. (1999). The contextual effects of community social capital on academic performance. Social sciences Research, 28(4), 403–426.
Svendsen, G. L. H. & Svendsen, G. T. (2004). The creation and destruction of social capital: Entrepreneurship, co-operative movements, and institutions. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
Tierney, W. G. (2006). Trust and the public good: Examining the cultural conditions of academic work. New York: Peter Lang Publishing.
Tzanakis, M. (2011). Bourdieu’s social reproduction thesis and the role of cultural capital in educational attainment: A critical review of key empirical studies. Educate, 11(1), 76–90.
Tzanakis, M. (2013). Social capital in Bourdieu’s, Coleman’s and Putnam’s theory: empirical evidence and emergent measurement issues. Educate, 13(2), 2–23.
Winter, I. (2000). Towards a theorised understanding of family life and social capital. Working Paper No. 21. Melbourne: Australian Institute of Family Studies.
Woolcock, M. (1998). Social capital and economic development: toward a theoretical synthesis and policy framework. Theory and Society, 27(2), 151–208.
Yan, W. (1999). Successful African American students: The role of parental involvement. J. Negro Education, 68(1), 5–22.
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2016-06-30
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Rogošić, S., & Baranović, B. (2016). Social Capital and Educational Achievements: Coleman vs. Bourdieu. Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 6(2), 81-100. https://doi.org/10.26529/cepsj.89
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