| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 社會教育學系碩士班 === 91 === Regarding class reproduction, some recent sociologists, particularly Pierre Bourdieu, a French sociologist, have argued that cultural capital, shaped and implemented mainly within the process of family socialization, tends to produce a more profound influence on students’ academic performances linking with the path of social mobility. Due to the fact that social class framework is able to significantly widen the supply of the form of cultural capital, working class students tend to develop a different type of habitus from middle/upper class students. In order to examine the powerful influence generated by initial contextualization undergoing within family social space, this study was designed to explore how different types of habitus are shaped within different family social spaces. After literature review, four research questions were identified as the following:
1. Do parental socioeconomic lifestyles reveal different patterns within the framework of social classes?
2. How does this difference influence parental values towards children’s academic achievements?
3. What is the relationship between social class background and parental educational actions?
Considering of the characteristics of these research questions, this study employed qualitative approach by doing thirty two interviews which informants from parents. Based on the evidence, five conclusions can be noted as the following:
1. Different types of parental lifestyle tended to shape different patterns of family social space.
2. Different types of social space were able to influence the nature of social network functioning for exchanging educational information.
3. Social space tended to extend its influence to parental expectations towards students’ academic achievements and occupations.
4. In terms of raising and educational action, working class parents were significantly different from middle/upper class parents.
5. Class framework influenced the supply of cultural capital and, hence, shaped types of habitus.
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