Mimmi Barmark
Senior Lecturer
School choice and the Natural Science Program
Author
Editor
- Stefan Lund
Summary, in English
Abstract: In Chapter 3, written together with Mimmi
Barmark, we try to estimate the extent to which students’
choices are guided and restricted by structural and symbolic
boundaries, in order to point out the possible reasons for
school segregation between the different Natural Science
schools. The analysis is divided into seven steps and based
primarily not only on survey data, but also on interviews
with students with high enough grades to be accepted to
what we call “high-threshold” schools. Our results show that
it is not primarily previous school achievement that guides
and restricts students’ school choices; students’ feelings of
belonging are at least as important. Feelings of belonging
are particularly important for native-born Swedish students
who choose a high-threshold school, which leads us to the
interpretation that it is these members of this student group
who are the significant agents of self-segregation.
Barmark, we try to estimate the extent to which students’
choices are guided and restricted by structural and symbolic
boundaries, in order to point out the possible reasons for
school segregation between the different Natural Science
schools. The analysis is divided into seven steps and based
primarily not only on survey data, but also on interviews
with students with high enough grades to be accepted to
what we call “high-threshold” schools. Our results show that
it is not primarily previous school achievement that guides
and restricts students’ school choices; students’ feelings of
belonging are at least as important. Feelings of belonging
are particularly important for native-born Swedish students
who choose a high-threshold school, which leads us to the
interpretation that it is these members of this student group
who are the significant agents of self-segregation.
Department/s
- Sociology
Publishing year
2015
Language
English
Pages
28-48
Publication/Series
School Choice, Ethnic Divisions, and Symbolic Boundaries
Document type
Book chapter
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Topic
- Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Keywords
- ethnicity
- immigrant background
- school segregation
- school choice
- Sociology of education
- Sweden
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 9781137480064