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Bozick, Robert; Alexander, Karl; Entwisle, Doris; Dauber, Susan; Kerr, Kerri – Social Forces, 2010
This study revisits the Wisconsin model of status attainment from a life course developmental perspective. Fixed-effects regression analyses lend strong support to the Wisconsin framework's core proposition that academic performance and significant others' influence shape educational expectations. However, investigating the process of expectation…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Causal Models, Educational Attainment, Disadvantaged
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Dill, Jeffrey S. – Social Forces, 2009
School sector and educational context seem to make a difference in civic socialization. There is limited knowledge, however, of the mechanisms through which socialization may occur in public and private schools, and the extent to which they have any lasting effect. Does the private school effect on civic socialization persist into young adulthood,…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Political Socialization, Citizen Participation, Young Adults