Ethnic Inequalities and Educational Attainment in Taiwan

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ID2328205
AuthorsJui-Chang Jao (Jui-Chang Jao, MA, is a doctoral candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Kentucky, Lexington. His main fields of interest are social stratification and mobility, economic sociology, political economy in East Asia, political sociology, and the middle class. He has published “Social Class and the Subjective Adaptation of Caregivers to Institutionalization” (coauthored with Keith Anderson, Leonard Pearlin, Steven Zarit, and Joseph Gaugler) and is completing his doctoral dissertation, “Middle-Class...), Matthew Mckeever (0009-0000-7869-8232, Matthew McKeever, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Mount Holyoke College. His main fields of interest are international comparative social stratification, economic inequality, and educational inequality. He is currently researching social change in southern Africa, family structure and inequality, and schooling in sub-Saharan Africa.)
Year2006
Volume79
Issue2
Pages131-152
Publication date2006-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociology of Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0407 • E-ISSN: 1939-8573
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/003804070607900203
OpenAlexW2162990525
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited30

In this article, the authors examine educational stratification in Taiwan against the background of an ethnically based political economy. They investigate how educational attainment is related to ethnicity and other background factors, such as parental class and education, and if these relationships changed over time as Taiwan became a more industrial and democratic society. The findings reveal that while children from Mainlander families are overall more likely to achieve higher levels of education and make the crucial transition of graduating from secondary schools, this ethnic effect does not hold when parental class and education are taken into account. Parental class and education do matter, although they have diminished in importance over time. The authors relate these findings to theories of the relationship between industrialization and educational attainment

Academic achievement · Democracy · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Educational attainment · Educational inequality · Ethnic group · Industrialisation · Inequality · Life chances · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Social class · Social science · Social stratification · Sociology · Sociology of Education · Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

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