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https://doi.org/10.3935/rsp.v32i2.58
The Relationship between Students’ Economic and Cultural Capital and the Perceived Pandemic Impact on Their Educational Experiences and Everyday Lives
Saša Puzić
; Institut za društvena istraživanja u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
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Margareta Gregurović
orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-0794
; Institut za migracije i narodnosti, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Iva Odak
; Institut za društvena istraživanja u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
* Dopisni autor.
Sažetak
The paper aims to explore the association between the economic and cultural capital of final-year secondary school students with the perception of immediate and longer-term aspects of the pandemic educational experience, as well as with the perception of the impact of the pandemic on the lives of students. The paper builds on the theory of cultural and social reproduction (Bourdieu, 2011) that enables identifying the social determinants of students’ perception of the educational experience during the pandemic, and of the impact of the pandemic on students’ lives. The conducted analyses are based on data collected between May and June 2021 on a nationally representative sample of students in the final year of 80 secondary schools (N = 8631) in Croatia. Binary logistic regression was used to analyse the effect of economic and cultural capital on the intention to study. Multiple regression analysis was used to analyse the effect of economic and cultural capital on the expected school grades at the end of the class, the perception of the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on immediate aspects of the educational experience, as well as the assessment of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of students. The same analysis was applied in exploring the effect of the pandemic educational experience on the perception of the impact of the pandemic on the lives of students. The results show that even in pandemic conditions, students with higher economic and cultural capital expect higher grades at the end of the class, as well as that they are more likely to intend to continue their education at the tertiary level than the students with lower economic and cultural capital. The analysis of the same predictor model revealed that students with higher economic and cultural capital perceive the consequences of the pandemic on teaching and work at school more negatively, as well as the general consequences of the pandemic on their lives, than students with lower economic and cultural capital. Furthermore, the obtained findings indicate that there is a positive relationship
between immediate aspects of the pandemic educational experience and the students’
perception of the impact of the pandemic on their lives, and that this relationship was more often found among students with higher cultural capital. The paper considers possible explanations of the obtained findings, citing the importance of school adaptation for
preserving the educational and thus the longer-term life perspective of students during the pandemic. Although the relationship between economic and cultural capital and the perception of the pandemic disruptions in some aspects has been shown to be partial and
inconsistent (especially with regard to the effect of economic capital), the presented findings support its importance for a more complete understanding of the situation in which schools and students found themselves during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ključne riječi
COVID-19 pandemic; economic capital; cultural capital; educational expectations; educational experience; the impact of the pandemic on students’ lives.
Hrčak ID:
337797
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.10.2025.
Posjeta: 132 *