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Reynolds, John R.; Johnson, Monica Kirkpatrick – Social Forces, 2011
What do recent trends toward increasingly ambitious educational expectations and rising college completion rates mean for the stratification of higher education? This article shows that the odds of achieving expectations for a bachelor's degree increased across 15 cohorts of young adults, and to a lesser extent, for expectations to attend…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Educational Attainment, Young Adults, Academic Aspiration
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O'Brien, Robert M.; Stockard, Jean – Social Forces, 2006
A longstanding debate focuses on whether suicide and homicide rates walk hand in hand or whether they are reciprocally related. Much of the research on this issue investigates whether suicide or homicide predominates in certain geographic areas or whether they trend together over time. We theorize that the degree of social integration and social…
Descriptors: Homicide, Social Integration, Suicide, Cohort Analysis