Social Origins, Social Statuses and Home Computer Access and Use

摘要: This paper assesses the effects of social origins as well individual level socio-economic statuses on respondents' access to and use home microcomputers in Canada. The study shows members lower class individuals owning using a computer significantly lesser extent than those from higher statuses. Much origin are mediated through statuses, particularly education. Respondents' education, consistent with previous research, is best predictor use. Moreover, analyses lend support Bourdieu's view that upper classes able reproduce themselves by adopting