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Direct linkGast, Melanie Jones – Sociology of Education, 2022
Past work and college-access programs often treat college knowledge as discrete pieces of information and focus on the amount of available college information. I use ethnographic and multiwave interview data to compare college-aspiring working- and middle-class black 9th and 11th graders across almost two years in high school along with their…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Academic Aspiration, Middle Class, African Americans
Ahearn, Caitlin E. – Sociology of Education, 2021
Students with aligned educational and occupational expectations have improved college and labor market outcomes. Despite extensive knowledge about the ways social background and school context contribute to educational expectations, less is known about the role of social intuitions in shaping expectational alignment. Drawing on data from the 2009…
Descriptors: College Planning, Career Planning, Occupational Aspiration, Academic Aspiration
Van Houtte, Mieke – Sociology of Education, 2017
This study examines whether the influence of track position on study involvement is gendered and whether gender differences in study involvement according to track position are associated with school misconduct and rather poor future perspectives. Three-level analyses (HLM 6) of data gathered in 2004-2005 from 11,872 third- and fifth-grade…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Track System (Education), Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students
Milner, Murray, Jr. – Sociology of Education, 2013
Peer relationships in secondary schools in two different cultural areas of India are compared. A general theory of status relations and a specification of the distinctive cultural features of each area are used to explain the observed differences in peer inequality, clique formation, petty deviance, putdowns, fashion consciousness, romantic…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Social Differences
Holland, Megan M. – Sociology of Education, 2015
Many minority, first-generation, and low-income students aspire to college; however, the college application process can present a significant obstacle. These students cannot always rely on their parents for college information and must instead turn to their high schools, where counselors are in a key position. Drawing on a two-year field study at…
Descriptors: High School Students, School Counselors, Trust (Psychology), Counselor Client Relationship
Ream, Robert K.; Rumberger, Russell W. – Sociology of Education, 2008
Policy makers are especially concerned about persistently high dropout rates among U.S. Latinos, the largest minority population in the United States. This study used a national longitudinal database to show that the behavioral and social aspects of schooling are dynamically linked in the process of school completion and dropout among Mexican…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Mexican Americans, Dropouts, Friendship
