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Social inequalities in access to higher education in Croatia: five decades of resilient findings
Authors:Karin Doolan  Saša Puzić  Branislava Baranović
Affiliation:1. Department of Sociology, University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatiakdoolan@unizd.hr;3. Centre for Educational Research and Development, Institute for Social Research, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract: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.
Keywords:Higher education access  social inequalities  students  Croatia  Bourdieu
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