Социалният капитал и образователните постижения на учениците от големите етнически групи – българи и роми
Social Capital and Educational Achievements of Students From Major Etnic Groups –Bulgarians and Roma

Summary/Abstract: A stable social group is forming in the Bulgarian society, which has no chances for realization fulfilment on the labour market due to illiteracy or lack of education and/or qualifications. At the same time, changes in the labour market place higher requirements on labour force’s the educational and qualification level of the. Thirdlyhand, the social stratification of society results in linking coupling access of to education to with the socio-economic status of families. The question arises whether it is possible for the scarcity of economic and cultural capital to be influenced by the of social capital’s resources for the purposes of education? Under what circumstances social capital could increase or decrease the likelihood of educational achievements of students in the Bulgarian education system? The This work examines the problem of with the relationship between social capital and educational achievements is through the prism lens of theories of James Colman, Pier Bourdieu, Alejandro Portes and Nan Lin and Raymond Boudon’s the theory of primary and secondary effects of social origins further developed by Robert Erikson, Jan Jonsson, John Goldthorpe and Hartmut Esser.

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