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Analyzing the Intersection of Social Capital and Digital Literacy in Higher Education Access
This study examines how socioeconomic status, social capital, and digital literacy interact to influence student access and success in higher education.
In plain words
Students from poorer homes often face a harder road into university. This study asks how the people they know and their skills with digital tools shape that path, which could guide efforts to make higher education fairer.
Primary research question
In what ways do social capital and digital literacy mediate the relationship between socioeconomic status and higher education access?
Knowledge gap
What remains worth asking
The mechanisms by which digital literacy acts as a form of social capital in the context of educational stratification remain under-researched.
Potential contribution
Why it may matter
Informs institutional equity policies and digital inclusion strategies to mitigate educational inequality.
Academic placement
Academic fields and topic tags
Study frame: Higher education access and student demographic outcomes. · Method signals: Comparative analysis, Quantitative survey
Possible study pathways
One question, different levels
Postgraduate diploma
Equity and inclusion strategies in digital learning environments.
Research master’s
Sociological analysis of digital divide and educational stratification.
- originality
- Moderate
- methodology
- Moderate
- Data access
- Moderate
- ethics
- Moderate
Quality and audit
79/100 quality
Safeguard-based audit was not recorded under the prior standard.
- Addresses critical social justice issues in education.
- Requires careful ethical consideration regarding student data.
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APA 7 source
Wang, S., Alam, G. M., Bashir, K., & Lei, M. (2025). Reproducing Inequality? Social Capital, Digital Literacy, and SES in Access to Higher Education. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 13(1), Article 42. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-06264-y
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