Science Aspirations, Capital, and Family Habitus: How Families Shape Children's Engagement and Identification With Science

American Educational Research Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 881-908

  Archer, Louise ^a   DeWitt, Jennifer ^a   Osborne, Jonathan ^b   Dillon, Justin ^a   Willis, Beatrice ^a   Wong, Billy ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aspirations; Bourdieu; family; inequality; science

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866537675     PISSN: 00028312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0002831211433290     Document Type: Article

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