Xiaoming Sheng has a PhD in Sociology of Education from the University of Cambridge, UK. Prior to her doctoral studies, she was a Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Beijing University, China.

• 1. Setting the Scene  2. Class and Higher Education Choice  3. Gender and Higher Education Choice  4. Cultural Capital and Class Strategy: How Middle-Class Mothers Make Cultural Capital Work  5. Capital and Social Stratification: Four Social Fractions within Middle Classes  6. Habitus and the Reproduction of Cultural Capital  7. Contributions and Conclusions

Xiaoming Sheng has a PhD in Sociology of Education from the University of Cambridge, UK. Prior to her doctoral studies, she was a Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Beijing University, China.

• 1. Setting the Scene  2. Class and Higher Education Choice  3. Gender and Higher Education Choice  4. Cultural Capital and Class Strategy: How Middle-Class Mothers Make Cultural Capital Work  5. Capital and Social Stratification: Four Social Fractions within Middle Classes  6. Habitus and the Reproduction of Cultural Capital  7. Contributions and Conclusions

Xiaoming Sheng has a PhD in Sociology of Education from the University of Cambridge, UK. Prior to her doctoral studies, she was a Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Beijing University, China.

• 1. Setting the Scene  2. Class and Higher Education Choice  3. Gender and Higher Education Choice  4. Cultural Capital and Class Strategy: How Middle-Class Mothers Make Cultural Capital Work  5. Capital and Social Stratification: Four Social Fractions within Middle Classes  6. Habitus and the Reproduction of Cultural Capital  7. Contributions and Conclusions