“CHILDREN ARE A POOR MAN’S RICHESâ€: AN ANECDOTE OF FELDA PARENTS’ INVESTMENT FOR CHILDREN’S SOCIAL MOBILITY
Abstract
This paper discusses the issue of social mobility pertaining to parents’ investment for children’s social mobility. The main objective of this study is to identify the patterns of educational social mobility between the two generations of FELDA settlers in Perak. This study also analyzed parents’ investment in terms of financial support for their children’s educational mobility and the factor that lead such investment to take place. This study used qualitative method using in-depth interviews and participant observation with thirty settlers resided in a FELDA settlement in Perak. The fieldwork was conducted for a period of nine months beginning from December 2014 to August 2015. Thirty first generation settlers and thirty second generation settlers were selected as the main source of reference. The significance of the study is to provide some insights regarding the issues pertaining to social mobility in the context of FELDA community and how such patterns are influenced by parents’ investment. This is significant in order to fill the research gaps and to provide new insights to the sociological body of knowledge and to contribute new inputs for certain government agencies and researchers in the fieldReferences
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