Drawing on comparative analyses from nine Western countries, we ask whether local-born children from a wide range of immigrant groups show patterns of female advantage in education that are similar to those prevalent in their host Western societies. We consider five outcomes throughout the educational career: test scores or grades at age 15,…

Prior work has proposed different theoretical mechanisms to explain students' course-taking patterns in schools. On the one hand, there are oversocialized accounts that claim that rules, social background factors, and supply-side factors shape observed career patterns. On the other hand, there are undersocialized accounts that claim that the…

College student change on values, intellectual orientation, and personal development was analyzed in the context of a causal model. Research was based on logitudinal study of students in a large liberal arts college and a small, innovative, living-learning environment. College impact on students was mediated through human interaction with…

The argument is advanced that the level of university student political activity in a society tends to reflect the degree of which the student social status is developed and formulated as a social type. Also considered are the historical and recent positions of students in the United States. (Author/DB)

Reports on a comparative study of nursery school children in the United States and Italy. Identifies and discusses the importance of basic routines in the peer culture of young children for the development of communication skills and social knowledge. Explores the possibilities of universal features in young children's peer cultures and develops…