Educational Pathways; Inequality in Higher Education; Sequence Analysis; Social Origin; Study Trajectories; German higher education
Résumé :
[en] While the relationship between the transition to higher education and social origin has been widely investigated, much less is known about study trajectories, that is, the study patterns between enrolment and graduation (or terminal dropout). This paper fills this gap by responding to the question: ‘How do students of different social origin progress through their bachelor’s studies at German universities?’ Based on explanations of how academic-cultural and economic resources are related to social origin, opposing hypotheses regarding students’ social origin and their experience of linear, as opposed to less linear, higher education trajectories are developed. The analysis is based on a panel study with bachelor students at German universities (National Educational Panel Study, NEPS). Trajectories are reconstructed using sequence analysis, yielding six different higher education trajectory types. The results of the multinomial logistic regression models reveal that students with low educated parents are at greater risk of following incomplete and more complex study trajectories. Compared with those students who experience a linear trajectory, the divergence in paths is partly explained with reference to differences in academic achievement, but also, to some degree, with reference to other resource differences.
Disciplines :
Sociologie & sciences sociales
Auteur, co-auteur :
HAAS, Christina ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > LUCET ; Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsverläufe, Bamberg, Germany
Co-auteurs externes :
no
Langue du document :
Anglais
Titre :
Social Origin and Students’ Trajectory Patterns at German Universities A Sequence-Analytical Approach
Date de publication/diffusion :
2023
Titre du périodique :
Soziale Welt: Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung und Praxis
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