Doolan, Karin and Puzić, Saša and Baranović, Branislava (2018) Social inequalities in access to higher education in Croatia: five decades of resilient findings. Journal of further and higher education, 42 (4). pp. 467-481. ISSN 0309-877X (Print), 1469-9486 (Online)
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IN ENGLISH: This article provides a panoramic view of research findings on social inequalities in access to higher education in Croatia since the 1960s, guided by the question of what has changed in the findings. Our review shows that there is stark continuity over the last five decades: students from better educated family backgrounds tend to be overrepresented in higher education ; students from better educated and white-collar family backgrounds are more likely to enrol in academic as opposed to professional study courses ; students at one Croatian university in particular stand out in terms of their more privileged social background ; and medicine seems to be the prime academic field for observing social reproduction. We note that these persistent findings run parallel to a dramatically changing political, economic and social context in Croatia, including transformations in the 1990s resulting from social ownership of the means of production to widespread private ownership, as well as transformations from a one-party political system to the establishment of a multi-party political system. The article maps possible theoretical explanations for the resilience of social inequalities in access to higher education in the context of dynamic times. It also questions the role of educational policies in this process. ---------- IN CROATIAN: U članku se daje pregled rezultata istraživanja društvenih nejednakosti u pristupu visokom obrazovanju u Hrvatskoj od 1960-tih do danas, vodeći se pitanjem o mogućim promjenama. Pokazuje se da postoji izraziti kontinuitet u rezultatima istraživanja u zadnjih pet desetljeća: studenti više obrazovanih roditelja u pravilu su nadzastupljeni u visokom obrazovanju; studenti više obrazovanih roditelja i roditelja službenika češće upisuju akademske nego stručne studijske programe; studenti jednog hrvatskog sveučilišta izdvajaju se u smislu njihovog privilegiranog socijalnog porijekla; medicina se pokazuje kao područje studija u kojem je društvena reprodukcija najzastupljenija. Ističe se postojanost ovih nalaza u okolnostima izrazitih političkih, ekonomskih i socijalnih promjena, uključujući tranzicijske procese iz 1990-tih. U članku se mapiraju moguća teorijska objašnjenja postojanosti društvenih nejednakosti u pristupu visokom obrazovanju u kontekstu društvenih promjena. Preispituje se i uloga obrazovnih politika u ovome procesu.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Language: English. - Title in Croatian: Društvene nejednakosti u pristupu visokom obrazovanju u Hrvatskoj: pet desetljeća postojanih nalaza. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Higher education access, social inequalities, students, Croatia, Bourdieu (pristup visokom obrazovanju, društvene nejednakosti, studenti, Hrvatska, Bourdieu) |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
| Depositing User: | Karolina |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Sep 2017 11:27 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Apr 2018 14:02 |
| URI: | http://idiprints.knjiznica.idi.hr/id/eprint/776 |
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