Inegalitatea șanselor de reușită școlară și transmiterea intergenerațională a unor atitudini și comportamente
The inequality of educational opportunity for success and the transmission of some „transgenerational” attitudes and behaviors

Summary/Abstract: In our study we want to reveal the extent of chances inequality for school success (related to family status) and to identify attitudes / behaviors transmitted intergenerational likely to mediate the relationship between parental status and academic outcomes of children. New studies regarding inequality of social chances are important because success in life continues to depend on the family background and the mechanism of this dependency is insufficiently known and used to counteract it. We wanted to find out what aspects of family status are most relevant to school success. We proposed also to identify, between some attitudes / behaviors transmitted intergenerational, those that are associated with both family status and with school success, in order to argue the existence of mediators for the intergenerational transmission of chances inequality. Study targeted students in grade VII and VIII of Aiud (exhaustively) and Alba Iulia (selectively, non-randomly). To self-completion questionnaires answered both students (in the classroom, supervised) and parents, at home. Sociological survey shows that family status (operationalized by household income, the perception of it, mother's education and number of books in library) is strongly associated with school success and that mothers' schooling has highest relevance. We identified behaviors (reading books, watching TV scientific or cultural programs) whose frequency is transmitted intergenerational and which are associated both with parental status and school success. We believe that the analysis of intergenerational transmission of attitudes / behaviors associated with family status and school success could facilitate policy development to reduce inequality of social chances.

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