October 3, 2025Open Access

The Role of Higher Education in Promoting Social Mobility in Indonesia

Key Points

Higher education significantly promotes upward social mobility in Indonesia, with socioeconomic factors heavily influencing this relationship.
Cultural disparities and geographical inequality impact access to higher education and the potential for social advancement.
The research applies Boudon's frameworks to explore the connections between educational opportunity and social mobility in Indonesia.
Decreasing inequality in society enhances access to higher education, thereby encouraging greater social mobility.

Abstract

This paper explains the link between higher education and social mobility in Indonesia. There are several theoretical frameworks talking about the link between higher education and social mobility and the relevant theory of them is Raymond Boudon’s Inequality of Educational Opportunity (IEO) and Inequality of Social Opportunity (ISO). The results reveal that the link between higher education and social mobility in Indonesia is influenced by other factors: inequality of social-economy and geography and cultural disparities. Furthermore, the more decreasing inequality in the society, the more people can go to higher education and in turn will promote upward social mobility.

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Muhammad Husni Arifin (Sat,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e02f3cf0e39f13e7fa2548 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.26417/6edwqh94

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