Schooling and social capital in diverse cultures

One of the most seductive topics in recent years is the field of social capital - the webs of trust, mutual obligation, and cultural knowledge that flow through local information - that yield resources in human-scale associations of individuals. When we ask about the implications for children's...

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Other Authors Fuller, Bruce, Hannum, Emily
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam ; Boston : JAI, 2002.
Edition1st ed.
SeriesResearch in sociology of education ; v. 13.
Subjects
Educational sociology > Cross-cultural studies.
Social capital (Sociology)
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849508858
1849508852
0762308176
9780762308170
ISSN1479-3539 ;
DOI10.1108/S1479-3539(2002)13
Physical Description1 online resource (vi, 186 p.)

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Scaffolding for achievement? Institutional foundations of social capital / Bruce Fuller and Emily Hannum
  • Social capital and immigrant children's achievement / Carl L. Bankston III and Min Zhou
  • Family and non-family roots of social capital among Vietnamese and Mexican American children / Kimberly A. Goyette and Gilberto Q. Conchas
  • Commentary: Uses and mususes of social capital in studying school attainment / Patricia Fernández Kelly
  • Ethnic differences in parents' educational aspirations / Grace Kao
  • Schooling alternatives, inequality, and mobility in Israel / Yossi Shavit, Hanna Ayalon and Michal Kurlaender
  • Commentary: Is social capital the self-esteem of the 1990s? / Maryellen Schaub and David P. Baker
  • Getting ahead in Kenya: social capital, shadow education, and achievement / Claudia Buchmann
  • Commentary: Cultural and social capital in educational research / Raymond Sin-Kwok Wong
  • Conclusions: Cross-cultural views of social capital, institutions, and stratification / Emily Hannum and Bruce Fuller.

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