SOCIAL CAPITAL AND EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS OF STUDENTS FROM LARGE ETHNIC GROUPS –BULGARIANS AND ROMA
SOCIAL CAPITAL AND EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS OF STUDENTS FROM LARGE ETHNIC GROUPS –BULGARIANS AND ROMA

Summary/Abstract: A stable social group is being formed in the Bulgarian society, and this group has no chances to self-fulfil on the labour market due to illiteracy or lack of education and/or qualifications. At the same time, changes in the labour market impose higher requirements on labour force’s educational and qualification levels. Thirdly, the social stratification of society results in linking access to education 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 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? This work examines the problem of the relationship between social capital and educational achievements through the lens of theories of James Coleman, Pierre Bourdieu, Alejandro Portes and Nan Lin and Raymond Boudon’s theory of primary and secondary effects of social origins, as further developed by Robert Erickson, Jan Jonsson, John Goldthorpe and Hartmut Esser.

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