Reconsideration of the effects of family background on educational attainment process

本研究的目的是：1）回顾家庭背景对教育获得过程的影响的理论解释; 2）提出检验家庭背景对教育获得过程影响的框架; 3）采用新的框架对调查数据进行检验。通过以上研究，我们发现了”次级效应”（Boudon 1973）的重要性，以及在以往的研究中被忽视的”文化资本的直接效应”的研究的必要性。

The purpose of this study is, regarding the influences of family background on educational attainment process, 1) to review theoretical interpretation on these influences, 2) to propose the framework for examining those effects, and 3) to test the hypotheses on them applying a new framework to survey data. As a consequence of above research, the following findings are obtained : the importance of" secondary effect"(Boudon 1973) and the necessity of investigating the" direct effects of cultural capital" which have been ignored in the previous studies.