Bruce K Eckland
Biographic Data
| ID | 126880 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce K Eckland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce K |
| FAMILY NAME | Eckland |
| SIGNATURE | ECKLAND B K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 325 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Benefits of Being Attractive: Differential Payoffs for Men and Women
This study used attractiveness ratings of about 601 males and 745 females based on high school annual pictures to predict marital and socio-economic status 15 yr. later. Attractiveness gets females highly educated husbands with high income, but no benefits in occupational status or own income. It also reduces the probability of remaining unmarried. For males, attractiveness interferes with achievement of status
Does IQ Mean Anything Anymore
Assortative Mating: Theories of mate selection
Theories of mate selection and the effects of assortative mating are reviewed, including differences in the basic theoretical orientations of the social and biological sciences with respect to human evolution and assortative mating. Topics discussed include evolution in parallel and interaction, terminology of nonrandom mate selection, theories of mate choice, social stratification and class endogamy, and suggestions for future research
Education in the Meritocracy Who Gets Ahead? The Determinants of Economic Success in America . Christopher Jencks
Schooling Does Make a Difference
Adolescence to Adulthood
High School Contextual Effects for Black and White Students: A Research Note
The differential effects of high school socioeconomic status (SES) and ability contexts upon the school and college going experience of white and black males are examined, using the NLS data. Based on past research, it is predicted that the influence of school SES composition will be primarily salutory, while the influence of school ability context will be negative. Further, it is predicted that these offsetting influences interact with race; i.e…
Schooling and Achievement in American Society. William H. Sewell , Robert M. Hauser , David L. Featherman
Middle Start: An Experiment in the Educational Enrichment of Young Adolescents
List of tables Preface 1. The sources of academic achievement: theoretical perspective 2. Methods of the Middle Start program 3. Backgrounds of the Middle Starters 4. Testing a hypothesis by matched pairs 5. Toward educational enrichment Appendixes Notes References Index
Genetic Variance in the SES-IQ Correlation
Sociologists need to be aware of some of the complex issues associated with the genetics of intelligence as they relate to sociological research. To highlight some of these issues, this article discusses a number of questions dealing with the genetic aspects of the SES4Q correlation. These include: Is the SES-IQ correlation a causal one (due to environmental effects) or spurious (genetic)? If we view it as either due to environmental or genetic f…
School Racial Composition and College Attendance Revisited
Education and Political Party: The Effects of College or Social Class
The relationship between education and political party preference is examined for nonsuthern males and females using retrospective data from a national sample of high school students followed up in 1970 at about age 30. As expected, the zero-order correlation between years to schooling and Republican party preference was found to be positive. However, controling for inherited partisan loyalties, class origins, and socioeconomic attainment, the po…
Adult Voluntary Associations and Adolescent Socialization
The effect of participation in extracurricular activities in high school on membership in adult voluntary associations is examined using longitudinal data from a national sample of adolescents who were followed up in 1970 at about age 30. Independent of social origins, ability, and academic performance, participation in extracurricular school activities has a relatively strong direct effect on participation in adult secondary associations, plus p…
High School Context and College Selectivity: Institutional Constraints in Educational Stratification
Journal Article High School Context and College Selectivity: Institutional Constraints in Educational Stratification Get access Karl L. Alexander, Karl L. Alexander The Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bruce K. Eckland Bruce K. Eckland University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 56, Issue …
Education, Occupation, and Earnings: Achievement in the Early Career
Darwin Rides Again Sociobiology: The New Synthesis. Edward O. Wilson
Athletics and Social Participation in the Educational Attainment Process
Dewey, John. 1944 Democracy and Education. New York: The Free Press. Eisenstadt, S. N. 1956 From Generation to Generation. New York: The Free Press. Miller, Stephen. 1973 Ends, means and galumphing: leitmotifs of play. American Anthropologist 75:87-98. Moore, Omar K., and Alan R. Anderson. 1969 Some principles for the design of clarifying educational environments. Pp. 571-613 in David Goslin (ed.), Handbook of Socialization Theory and Research. N…
Human Diversity
Contextual Effects in the High School Attainment Process
This paper presents a multidimensional mediation model of composition influences. Ability and social status of student body composition are distinguished, and the interpersonal and social comparison processes by which their effects tend to offset each other are specified. Whereas the contextual effects of ability were found to be negative, those of social status were positive. Since the two contextual variables themselves are positively and stron…
Basic Attainment Processes: A Replication and Extension
Longitudinal survey data on a national sample of youth, first sampled as high-school sophomores in 1955 and followed up in 1970, were employed in a replication and extension of the Blau and Duncan basic of the status attainment process. Most of the analysis was consistent with previous inquiries in this area, while the discrepancies suggest possible changes in status dynamics over time and the need to qualify the interpretation of such analyses w…
The Wisconsin Model of Socioeconomic Achievement: A Replication
Status attainment research has been characterized by the evaluation of analytic models of increasing complexity. This project replicates one of the Wisconsin "social-psychological" models of socioeconomic achievement with 15-year longitudinal data for a national sample of males first sampled in 1955 as high school sophomores and followed up in 1970. Interpersonal and subjective school variables are found to mediate a substantial part of the effec…
Genetic Fix.Amitai Etzioni
Sex Differences in the Educational Attainment Process
Biology and Social Behavior. Allan Mazur , Leon S. Robertson
Trends in the intensity and direction of natural selection
Sex Differences in the Educational Attainment Process
Contextual Effects in the High School Attainment Process
This paper presents a multidimensional mediation model of composition influences. Ability and social status of student body composition are distinguished, and the interpersonal and social comparison processes by which their effects tend to offset each other are specified. Whereas the contextual effects of ability were found to be negative, those of social status were positive. Since the two contextual variables themselves are positively and stron…
The Wisconsin Model of Socioeconomic Achievement: A Replication
Status attainment research has been characterized by the evaluation of analytic models of increasing complexity. This project replicates one of the Wisconsin "social-psychological" models of socioeconomic achievement with 15-year longitudinal data for a national sample of males first sampled in 1955 as high school sophomores and followed up in 1970. Interpersonal and subjective school variables are found to mediate a substantial part of the effec…
Genetics and Sociology: A Recosideration
Adult Voluntary Associations and Adolescent Socialization
The effect of participation in extracurricular activities in high school on membership in adult voluntary associations is examined using longitudinal data from a national sample of adolescents who were followed up in 1970 at about age 30. Independent of social origins, ability, and academic performance, participation in extracurricular school activities has a relatively strong direct effect on participation in adult secondary associations, plus p…
Athletics and Social Participation in the Educational Attainment Process
Dewey, John. 1944 Democracy and Education. New York: The Free Press. Eisenstadt, S. N. 1956 From Generation to Generation. New York: The Free Press. Miller, Stephen. 1973 Ends, means and galumphing: leitmotifs of play. American Anthropologist 75:87-98. Moore, Omar K., and Alan R. Anderson. 1969 Some principles for the design of clarifying educational environments. Pp. 571-613 in David Goslin (ed.), Handbook of Socialization Theory and Research. N…
Retrieving Mobile Cases in Longitudinal Surveys
Journal Article RETRIEVING MOBILE CASES IN LONGITUDINAL SURVEYS Get access BRUCE K. ECKLAND BRUCE K. ECKLAND Associate Professor of Sociology University of North CarolinaChapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 1, SPRING 1968, Pages 51–64, https://doi.org/10.1086/267578 Published: 01 January 1968
Basic Attainment Processes: A Replication and Extension
Longitudinal survey data on a national sample of youth, first sampled as high-school sophomores in 1955 and followed up in 1970, were employed in a replication and extension of the Blau and Duncan basic of the status attainment process. Most of the analysis was consistent with previous inquiries in this area, while the discrepancies suggest possible changes in status dynamics over time and the need to qualify the interpretation of such analyses w…
Social Class and College Graduation: Some Misconceptions Corrected
From past research on the relationship of class origins and education, social scientists generally agree that, although class membership is a strong determinant of who goes to college, it does not determine who graduates. This study presents evidence to suggest that social class and college graduation are in fact, significantly related, especially among the college entrants who were only average students in high school. Rather than economic or in…
Academic Ability, Higher Education, and Occupational Mobility
The anchorage of career perspective is a mechanism common to both the unlimited and limited success orientations toward occupational mobility. The two models of motivation can be considered complementary; they refer to two outcomes of a more general model. The more general model requires that a career perspective be anchored to some reference point, which may be either the starting point of a career, or the level of maximum possible achievement. …
High School Contextual Effects for Black and White Students: A Research Note
The differential effects of high school socioeconomic status (SES) and ability contexts upon the school and college going experience of white and black males are examined, using the NLS data. Based on past research, it is predicted that the influence of school SES composition will be primarily salutory, while the influence of school ability context will be negative. Further, it is predicted that these offsetting influences interact with race; i.e…
Darwin Rides Again Sociobiology: The New Synthesis. Edward O. Wilson
Education and Political Party: The Effects of College or Social Class
The relationship between education and political party preference is examined for nonsuthern males and females using retrospective data from a national sample of high school students followed up in 1970 at about age 30. As expected, the zero-order correlation between years to schooling and Republican party preference was found to be positive. However, controling for inherited partisan loyalties, class origins, and socioeconomic attainment, the po…
On Education: Sociological Perspectives
High School Context and College Selectivity: Institutional Constraints in Educational Stratification
Journal Article High School Context and College Selectivity: Institutional Constraints in Educational Stratification Get access Karl L. Alexander, Karl L. Alexander The Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bruce K. Eckland Bruce K. Eckland University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 56, Issue …
Assortative Mating: Theories of mate selection
Theories of mate selection and the effects of assortative mating are reviewed, including differences in the basic theoretical orientations of the social and biological sciences with respect to human evolution and assortative mating. Topics discussed include evolution in parallel and interaction, terminology of nonrandom mate selection, theories of mate choice, social stratification and class endogamy, and suggestions for future research
New mating boundaries in education
The Future of Human Heredity: An Introduction to Eugenics in Modern Society
A Source of Error in College Attrition Studies
Graduation from oollege is treated here as the crucial dependent varia'ble. We know a great deal about why a student leaves the institution of first registration, but why he leaves and other factors associated with his early separation may have little connection with his later academic career. This study will demonstrate the need for an inter-institutional approach which allows for the delayed graduation of the dropouts who come back and the stud…
Education in the Meritocracy Who Gets Ahead? The Determinants of Economic Success in America . Christopher Jencks
Genetic Variance in the SES-IQ Correlation
Sociologists need to be aware of some of the complex issues associated with the genetics of intelligence as they relate to sociological research. To highlight some of these issues, this article discusses a number of questions dealing with the genetic aspects of the SES4Q correlation. These include: Is the SES-IQ correlation a causal one (due to environmental effects) or spurious (genetic)? If we view it as either due to environmental or genetic f…
School Racial Composition and College Attendance Revisited
A Source of Error in College Attrition Studies
Graduation from oollege is treated here as the crucial dependent varia'ble. We know a great deal about why a student leaves the institution of first registration, but why he leaves and other factors associated with his early separation may have little connection with his later academic career. This study will demonstrate the need for an inter-institutional approach which allows for the delayed graduation of the dropouts who come back and the stud…
Social Class and College Graduation: Some Misconceptions Corrected
From past research on the relationship of class origins and education, social scientists generally agree that, although class membership is a strong determinant of who goes to college, it does not determine who graduates. This study presents evidence to suggest that social class and college graduation are in fact, significantly related, especially among the college entrants who were only average students in high school. Rather than economic or in…
Academic Ability, Higher Education, and Occupational Mobility
The anchorage of career perspective is a mechanism common to both the unlimited and limited success orientations toward occupational mobility. The two models of motivation can be considered complementary; they refer to two outcomes of a more general model. The more general model requires that a career perspective be anchored to some reference point, which may be either the starting point of a career, or the level of maximum possible achievement. …
The Prediction of Academic Performance: A Theoretical Analysis and Review of Research
Genetics and Sociology: A Recosideration
Retrieving Mobile Cases in Longitudinal Surveys
Journal Article RETRIEVING MOBILE CASES IN LONGITUDINAL SURVEYS Get access BRUCE K. ECKLAND BRUCE K. ECKLAND Associate Professor of Sociology University of North CarolinaChapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 1, SPRING 1968, Pages 51–64, https://doi.org/10.1086/267578 Published: 01 January 1968
On Education: Sociological Perspectives
Public Participation, Innovation, and School Bureaucracies
The Future of Human Heredity: An Introduction to Eugenics in Modern Society
The English Public Schools.Ian Weinberg
New mating boundaries in education
Periodical abstracts
Trends in the intensity and direction of natural selection
The School Managers: Power and Conflict in American Public Education
Biology and Social Behavior. Allan Mazur , Leon S. Robertson
Sex Differences in the Educational Attainment Process
Human Diversity
Contextual Effects in the High School Attainment Process
This paper presents a multidimensional mediation model of composition influences. Ability and social status of student body composition are distinguished, and the interpersonal and social comparison processes by which their effects tend to offset each other are specified. Whereas the contextual effects of ability were found to be negative, those of social status were positive. Since the two contextual variables themselves are positively and stron…
Basic Attainment Processes: A Replication and Extension
Longitudinal survey data on a national sample of youth, first sampled as high-school sophomores in 1955 and followed up in 1970, were employed in a replication and extension of the Blau and Duncan basic of the status attainment process. Most of the analysis was consistent with previous inquiries in this area, while the discrepancies suggest possible changes in status dynamics over time and the need to qualify the interpretation of such analyses w…
The Wisconsin Model of Socioeconomic Achievement: A Replication
Status attainment research has been characterized by the evaluation of analytic models of increasing complexity. This project replicates one of the Wisconsin "social-psychological" models of socioeconomic achievement with 15-year longitudinal data for a national sample of males first sampled in 1955 as high school sophomores and followed up in 1970. Interpersonal and subjective school variables are found to mediate a substantial part of the effec…
Genetic Fix.Amitai Etzioni
Education, Occupation, and Earnings: Achievement in the Early Career
Darwin Rides Again Sociobiology: The New Synthesis. Edward O. Wilson
Athletics and Social Participation in the Educational Attainment Process
Dewey, John. 1944 Democracy and Education. New York: The Free Press. Eisenstadt, S. N. 1956 From Generation to Generation. New York: The Free Press. Miller, Stephen. 1973 Ends, means and galumphing: leitmotifs of play. American Anthropologist 75:87-98. Moore, Omar K., and Alan R. Anderson. 1969 Some principles for the design of clarifying educational environments. Pp. 571-613 in David Goslin (ed.), Handbook of Socialization Theory and Research. N…
High School Context and College Selectivity: Institutional Constraints in Educational Stratification
Journal Article High School Context and College Selectivity: Institutional Constraints in Educational Stratification Get access Karl L. Alexander, Karl L. Alexander The Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bruce K. Eckland Bruce K. Eckland University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 56, Issue …
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