Parenting Practice Selection and Multigenerational Education Transmission:From the Perspective of Bourdieu's Social Practice Theory
The existing paradigm of two-generation family parenting practice may overlook its continuous impact on the intergenerational transmission of education.In this paper,family parenting practice is incorporated into the framework of multigenerational education transmission,while the concepts of field,habitus,and capital are borrowed from Bourdieu's social practice theory to interpret and analyze their impacts on the acquisition of adolescents'ability.Using CFPS data to construct a two-line relationship of grandparents-parents-grandchild and run a statistical analysis,we find that the parenting behavior within the family,directly reflecting parenting habits,is a result of educational mobility,which is only related to the educational achievement of the parents.However,beyond habitus,the cultivating strategy outside family and school,restricted by economic capital,is also independently influenced by paternal grandparents'educational achievements,thus maintaining the multi-generation reproduction of educational advantages.The findings indicate that family parenting practice dependent on economic capital has become a direct way of the multigenerational continuation of paternal lineage.Research on the development of adolescents needs to focus on the influence of grandparents,especially paternal grandparents.
Grandparents'Educational AchievementEducational MobilityParenting PracticeMultigenerational Transmission of EducationSocial Practice Theory