Exploring the Impartiality of Taiwanese Higher Education and Students’ Rights in a Social Stratification Perspective

• Main Authors: Jhih-Yun Li, 李芷芸
• Other Authors: Chih-Heng Tsai
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/18861268470383581073

碩士 === 銘傳大學 === 公共事務學系碩士班 === 99 === With a focus on the impartiality of higher-education system and students’ rights in Taiwan, this study is intended to explore how family background is connected to a child’s academic achievements, predicted remuneration level, class identity, and identification with social values. Concrete suggestions were presented according to the process and results of this study, and hopefully will provide a foundation for Taiwanese government agencies to improve the status of underprivileged students. In this study, people aged mostly 24 to 30 were surveyed on the basis of Taiwan Social Change Survey (TSCS), a well known project initiated by the Academia Sinica. The data collected was analyzed using cross tabulation, in order to find out any significant relationship between family background and the respondent’s personal qualities regarding each variable. Meanwhile, One-Way ANOVA was adopted to test if the social class of a respondent and that of his/her father are significantly different. Findings from this study include: 1. A family’s educational background may result in a capital transfer, and subsequently a system of recurring social-class reproduction. A child’s socioeconomic status is probably determined in part by the family background (particularly the father’s class/status). 2. The 1992 data indicated a potential influence of educational achievement on future remunerations (social class/status), which means the better educated, the more easily a person will enjoy a pay rise in the future. In 2002, nevertheless, statistics showed an asymmetrical relationship between educational achievement and remuneration (social class/status). 3. Generally speaking, a person’s future social class/status may not be easily affected by his/her socioeconomic status, although it is likely to be affected by his/her father’s social class. To a large extent, analytical findings from this study indicate that the socioeconomic status of a person and that of his/her father may not easily affect how he/she identifies with social values. 4. Finally, it is learned from the literature review that Taiwan’s higher education system fails to offer students supportive measures in a consistent and effective way, despite the impressive variety. That is why the country’s higher-education students tend to be victimized by a widening class gap and credential inflation.