Family Socioeconomic Status, Peers, and the Path to College
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2485671 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Crosnoe (0000-0001-5861-0555, The University of Texas at Austin, corresponding author), Chandra Muller (0000-0002-2216-7034, The University of Texas at Austin) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 602-624 |
| Publication date | 2014-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Problems (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7791 • E-ISSN: 1533-8533 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1525/sp.2014.12255 |
| PMID | 25544782 |
| PMCID | PMC4276340 |
| OpenAlex | W2331805093 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 43 |
| References cited | 64 |
Drawing on the primary/secondary effects perspective of educational inequality, this mixed methods study investigated connections between high school students' trajectories through college preparatory coursework and their relationships with parents and peers as a channel in the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic inequality. Growth curve and multilevel analyses of national survey and transcript data revealed that having college-educated parents differentiated students' enrollment in advanced coursework at the start of high school and that this initial disparity was stably maintained over subsequent years. During this starting period of high school, exposure to school-based peer groups characterized by higher levels of parent education appeared to amplify these coursework disparities between students with and without college-educated parents. Ethnographic data from a single high school pointed to possible mechanisms for these patterns, including the tendency for students with college-educated parents to have more information about the relative weight of grades, core courses, and electives in college-going and for academically-relevant information from school peers with college-educated parents to matter most to students' coursework when it matched what was coming from their own parents
Center (category theory) · Library science · Path (computing) · Political science · Population · Research center · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Computer Science · Demography · Higher Education Research Studies · Law · Medicine · Parental Involvement in Education · Psychology · School Choice and Performance · Gerontology
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| Unique citing works | 43 |
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| Citations per year | 4,3 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 42 |