Inequality in Computing Education through the lens of Social Capital: a Methodology

Abstract

Since the 1980s, social capital has emerged as an influential concept in the social sciences, used to study inequality and an individual’s socioeconomic position in society. Despite its popularity, capital studies in computing education are less common, a field which traditionally lacks diversity in terms of access and participation. The goal of the proposed methodology is to develop an understanding of why people engage with computing education and succeed in it, while others do not.