The Effects of Extended Family on Class Differences of Educational Attainment

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24531069
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology of education
• Research Institution: Kyushu University
• Principal Investigator: ARAMAKI Sohei 九州大学, 人間・環境学研究科(研究院), 准教授 (90321562)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 家族社会学 / 出身階層 / 家族制度

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Using the nationally representative surveys, I examined the relation between the educational attainment of the respondents' children and the educational certificates of extended family members as grand parents and uncles and aunts, net of respondent's educational certificate and other important variables as sex and cohort of the children. The results of the various analyses show the direct effects of the certificates of extended family members on educational attainment of the children. It is not supported by the data that these effects indicate the direct transmission, which traditional family institution promotes, of economic and/or cultural capitals of extended family members to the children. More appropriate interpretation is that their certificates work as the reference for the respondents in forming their educational expectation to their own children.

Free Research Field

教育社会学