Forms Of Capital And Education: The Case Of Janitors’ Families In Büyükçekmece, Istanbul

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This thesis examines the janitor's family's motivation to attend higher education even though their economic capital has remained the same. Since it is known that the transformation of economic capital accumulation cannot be explained solely by economic determinants, Bourdieu's forms of capital constitute the theoretical framework of this thesis. In the scope of this thesis, in-depth interviews were conducted with 70 janitors or/and their family members in Büyükçekmece, İstanbul. Participants migrating from the same regions (Zonguldak/Bartın) migrated to the same region (Büyükçekmece/İstanbul) to do the same occupation (janitor), which constitutes the boundaries of the thesis. The participants are divided into groups primarily to show the expectations of parents and children from education and the differences between generations. On the other hand, parents' and children's groups are also divided into groups within themselves, aiming to discover how they experience the same processes. It was obtained that while the purpose of cultural capital accumulation for the middle class was to reproduce their economic capital, one of the purposes of cultural capital accumulation for the lower class serving these classes in regions where middle and upper classes are located may be symbolic capital accumulation before v economic capital accumulation. Another consequence was different from the general literature. It is a known fact that Anatolian High Schools are relatively more successful than Vocational High Schools in terms of university entrance rates. During the interviews, I observed that lower-class students were successful in university entrance when they attended Vocational High Schools.

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Forms of Capital, Education, Social Exclusion, Janitors’ families, Lower Class

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C. F. Çoğal, “Forms Of Capital And Education: The Case Of Janitors’ Families In Büyükçekmece, Istanbul,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2022.