Wpływ ruchliwości edukacyjnej na styl życia
Effect of educational mobility on lifestyle

Summary/Abstract: This study revisits and extends a classic question in sociology and tests three competing hypotheses about the effects of intergenerational educational mobility on cultural tastes. By applying diagonal reference models to data from a nationally representative survey conducted in 2019, I show that mobile individuals come to resemble their nonmobile counterparts in their current educational level, which confirms the hypothesis of maximization. This is inconsistent with Bourdieu’s view that habitus is largely determined by primary socialisation in the parental home. I also show that upwardly and downwardly mobile individuals switch musical tastes of both the parental and current educational level.

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