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