Associations with Parental Socioeconomic Status, Social Capital, Technological Capital and Student's Scores for College Entrance in South Korea

Abstract

This paper is to identify the relationship between parental socioeconomic status, social capital within the family, social capital within a school, technological capital and students' scores for college entrance in South Korea. This study builds on and extends existing work in that it examines parental socioeconomic status and the effect of social capital, dividing social capital into two forms of social capital, and their relationship to college enrollment in Korea. This paper contributes to the empirical study of social capitals and technological capital on education by examining the relationships between those capitals and their college entrance in Korea.