FACTORS INFLUENCING SCHOOL SUCCESS IN RURAL ROMANIA: A CASE STUDY BASED ON DATA COLLECTED WITH THE SCHOOL SUCCESS PROFILE INSTRUMENT
FACTORS INFLUENCING SCHOOL SUCCESS IN RURAL ROMANIA: A CASE STUDY BASED ON DATA COLLECTED WITH THE SCHOOL SUCCESS PROFILE INSTRUMENT

Summary/Abstract: Classical sociological studies of the ‘60s and ’70s have brought a great interest for the relation between school education and social stratification and, with it, social reproduction theories developed. Explanatory models set forth that social inequalities rooted in the social background (family of origin, neighborhood, peer groups, etc.) transpose into inequalities in school results and educational trajectories. Our paper investigates these relationships in today’s rural Romania, trying to answer the question: “Which variables influence most the academic performance of gymnasium students?”. Our focus was motivated by the results of recent studies in our country, showing that Romanian students from rural areas perform worse than students from urban areas (Miclea et al., 2007: 8; Voicu and Vasile, 2009). The data used in this paper were collected in 2009 using a School Success Profile based questionnaire (Bowen, Rose and Bowen, 2005); the analysis was performed on a sub-sample of a national sample of gymnasium students.

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