Susan A Dumai
Biographic Data
| ID | 217016 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan A Dumai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan A |
| FAMILY NAME | Dumai |
| SIGNATURE | DUMAI S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Louisiana State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1186-4985 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 404 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Regional differences in cultural participation in the United States and Europe
Cultural participation is socio-demographically stratified. However, the link between one’s region of residence and their cultural participation is understudied. We study this link in five countries: Denmark, Finland, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Cultural policies are typically constructed to level regional differences in cultural participation, so we chose the countries in our analysis to represent different well-known cult…
Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility
What's Race Got to Do With It? Disrupting Whiteness in Cultural Capital Research
In this essay, we argue that Whiteness is intrinsic to Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital, yet it remains unmarked within U.S.-based sociology of education research. As a result, these studies treat race as a tangential issue as opposed to a structure that is foundational to how society is organized and functions. We disrupt this unmarked relationship between Whiteness and cultural capital by (1) reviewing Bourdieu's work on race, class, and …
The cultural practices of first-generation college graduates: The role of childhood cultural exposure
Trends in the Relative Influence of Education and Income on Highbrow Taste, 1982-2012
Although numerous studies have confirmed the separate effects of economic and cultural capital on arts participation, research focusing on the cumulative and interactive effects of economic and cultural capital through the creation of taste publics is limited. Using data from the United States (Survey of Public Participation in the Arts [1982-2012]), this research integrates economic and cultural capital-measured as income and education-into the …
Feminization of arts participation and extracurricular activities? Gender differences in cultural capital and bullying victimization
Cultural Capital and Education
Concerted Cultivation and Teachers' Evaluations of Students: Exploring the Intersection of Race and Parents' Educational Attainment
Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey and Lareau's concept of concerted cultivation-the idea that educational and financial resources result in different cultural logics in the approach to parenting-the authors examine racial and educational differences in the relationship between parenting practices during elementary school and teachers' evaluations of students' (1) language and literacy skills, (2) approaches to learning, and …
Cultural capital and first-generation college success
Voluntary Childlessness in Marriage and Family Textbooks, 1950—2000
We perform a content analysis of twenty marriage and family textbooks published between 1950 and 2000 to study how the voluntarily childless are presented in undergraduate courses. Throughout the time period studied, independence, pursuit of a career, and romance were prominent themes in the representation of voluntary childlessness. Other themes emerged specific to each decade—the 1950s portrayed parenthood as a challenge, while the 1990s concen…
The academic attitudes of American teenagers, 1990-2002: Cohort and gender effects on math achievement
Adolescents' Time Use and Academic Achievement: A Test of the Reproduction and Mobility Models
Objectives. Following up on Bourdieu's (1973) model of reproduction and DiMaggio's (1982) model of mobility, I determine whether there are socioeconomic differences in the academic benefits provided by adolescents' use of free time. Methods. I analyze the associations that students' uses of time have with mathematics achievement test scores and grade point averages, using data from the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002 and OLS regression mod…
Cohort and Gender Differences in Extracurricular Participation: The Relationship Between Activities, Math Achievement, and College Expectations
Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 and the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002, I analyze the association that students' extracurricular activities have with two academic outcomes: mathematics achievement test scores and college expectations. I consider changes between cohorts and gender differences within each cohort. While prior achievement and expectations have the strongest associations with the dependent var…
Early childhood cultural capital, parental habitus, and teachers' perceptions
Elementary School Students' Extracurricular Activities: The Effects of Participation on Achievement and Teachers' Evaluations
I use data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study to examine both the number and the types of extracurricular activities in which elementary school students participate and find significant differences in participation patterns by gender, race, and class. The number of activities in which students participate during kindergarten and first grade affects their gains in reading achievement test scores between first and third grade and third gra…
Accumulating adversity and advantage on the path to postsecondary education: An Application of a Person-Centered Approach
School Choice: The Moral Debate
Cultural Capital, Gender, and School Success: The Role of Habitus
Studies of the effects of cultural capital on the educational success of male and female students have reached coLtiadictory concusions, and few studies have considered the role that habitus plays in educational outcomes. This article analyzes the cultural participation of eighth-grade boys and girls and presents a model that includes a measure for habitus. Through a detailed analysis of cultural practices that have typically been grouped togethe…
The Instability of Androgynous Names: The Symbolic Maintenance of Gender Boundaries
By definition, androgynous names do not serve as gender markers. Two radically different expectations about their growth are plausible: on the one hand, the rise of the feminist movement, which militates against gender distinctions, would suggest androgynous names increasing in recent decades. On the other hand, cross-cultural research indicates that first names designate gender more frequently than any other characteristic of a child or its fami…
Cultural Capital, Gender, and School Success: The Role of Habitus
Studies of the effects of cultural capital on the educational success of male and female students have reached coLtiadictory concusions, and few studies have considered the role that habitus plays in educational outcomes. This article analyzes the cultural participation of eighth-grade boys and girls and presents a model that includes a measure for habitus. Through a detailed analysis of cultural practices that have typically been grouped togethe…
Early childhood cultural capital, parental habitus, and teachers' perceptions
Elementary School Students' Extracurricular Activities: The Effects of Participation on Achievement and Teachers' Evaluations
I use data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study to examine both the number and the types of extracurricular activities in which elementary school students participate and find significant differences in participation patterns by gender, race, and class. The number of activities in which students participate during kindergarten and first grade affects their gains in reading achievement test scores between first and third grade and third gra…
Cultural capital and first-generation college success
Concerted Cultivation and Teachers' Evaluations of Students: Exploring the Intersection of Race and Parents' Educational Attainment
Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey and Lareau's concept of concerted cultivation-the idea that educational and financial resources result in different cultural logics in the approach to parenting-the authors examine racial and educational differences in the relationship between parenting practices during elementary school and teachers' evaluations of students' (1) language and literacy skills, (2) approaches to learning, and …
The Instability of Androgynous Names: The Symbolic Maintenance of Gender Boundaries
By definition, androgynous names do not serve as gender markers. Two radically different expectations about their growth are plausible: on the one hand, the rise of the feminist movement, which militates against gender distinctions, would suggest androgynous names increasing in recent decades. On the other hand, cross-cultural research indicates that first names designate gender more frequently than any other characteristic of a child or its fami…
What's Race Got to Do With It? Disrupting Whiteness in Cultural Capital Research
In this essay, we argue that Whiteness is intrinsic to Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital, yet it remains unmarked within U.S.-based sociology of education research. As a result, these studies treat race as a tangential issue as opposed to a structure that is foundational to how society is organized and functions. We disrupt this unmarked relationship between Whiteness and cultural capital by (1) reviewing Bourdieu's work on race, class, and …
Cohort and Gender Differences in Extracurricular Participation: The Relationship Between Activities, Math Achievement, and College Expectations
Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 and the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002, I analyze the association that students' extracurricular activities have with two academic outcomes: mathematics achievement test scores and college expectations. I consider changes between cohorts and gender differences within each cohort. While prior achievement and expectations have the strongest associations with the dependent var…
Feminization of arts participation and extracurricular activities? Gender differences in cultural capital and bullying victimization
The cultural practices of first-generation college graduates: The role of childhood cultural exposure
Voluntary Childlessness in Marriage and Family Textbooks, 1950—2000
We perform a content analysis of twenty marriage and family textbooks published between 1950 and 2000 to study how the voluntarily childless are presented in undergraduate courses. Throughout the time period studied, independence, pursuit of a career, and romance were prominent themes in the representation of voluntary childlessness. Other themes emerged specific to each decade—the 1950s portrayed parenthood as a challenge, while the 1990s concen…
Adolescents' Time Use and Academic Achievement: A Test of the Reproduction and Mobility Models
Objectives. Following up on Bourdieu's (1973) model of reproduction and DiMaggio's (1982) model of mobility, I determine whether there are socioeconomic differences in the academic benefits provided by adolescents' use of free time. Methods. I analyze the associations that students' uses of time have with mathematics achievement test scores and grade point averages, using data from the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002 and OLS regression mod…
The academic attitudes of American teenagers, 1990-2002: Cohort and gender effects on math achievement
Accumulating adversity and advantage on the path to postsecondary education: An Application of a Person-Centered Approach
Trends in the Relative Influence of Education and Income on Highbrow Taste, 1982-2012
Although numerous studies have confirmed the separate effects of economic and cultural capital on arts participation, research focusing on the cumulative and interactive effects of economic and cultural capital through the creation of taste publics is limited. Using data from the United States (Survey of Public Participation in the Arts [1982-2012]), this research integrates economic and cultural capital-measured as income and education-into the …
The Instability of Androgynous Names: The Symbolic Maintenance of Gender Boundaries
By definition, androgynous names do not serve as gender markers. Two radically different expectations about their growth are plausible: on the one hand, the rise of the feminist movement, which militates against gender distinctions, would suggest androgynous names increasing in recent decades. On the other hand, cross-cultural research indicates that first names designate gender more frequently than any other characteristic of a child or its fami…
Cultural Capital, Gender, and School Success: The Role of Habitus
Studies of the effects of cultural capital on the educational success of male and female students have reached coLtiadictory concusions, and few studies have considered the role that habitus plays in educational outcomes. This article analyzes the cultural participation of eighth-grade boys and girls and presents a model that includes a measure for habitus. Through a detailed analysis of cultural practices that have typically been grouped togethe…
School Choice: The Moral Debate
Accumulating adversity and advantage on the path to postsecondary education: An Application of a Person-Centered Approach
Early childhood cultural capital, parental habitus, and teachers' perceptions
Elementary School Students' Extracurricular Activities: The Effects of Participation on Achievement and Teachers' Evaluations
I use data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study to examine both the number and the types of extracurricular activities in which elementary school students participate and find significant differences in participation patterns by gender, race, and class. The number of activities in which students participate during kindergarten and first grade affects their gains in reading achievement test scores between first and third grade and third gra…
Adolescents' Time Use and Academic Achievement: A Test of the Reproduction and Mobility Models
Objectives. Following up on Bourdieu's (1973) model of reproduction and DiMaggio's (1982) model of mobility, I determine whether there are socioeconomic differences in the academic benefits provided by adolescents' use of free time. Methods. I analyze the associations that students' uses of time have with mathematics achievement test scores and grade point averages, using data from the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002 and OLS regression mod…
Cohort and Gender Differences in Extracurricular Participation: The Relationship Between Activities, Math Achievement, and College Expectations
Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 and the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002, I analyze the association that students' extracurricular activities have with two academic outcomes: mathematics achievement test scores and college expectations. I consider changes between cohorts and gender differences within each cohort. While prior achievement and expectations have the strongest associations with the dependent var…
Voluntary Childlessness in Marriage and Family Textbooks, 1950—2000
We perform a content analysis of twenty marriage and family textbooks published between 1950 and 2000 to study how the voluntarily childless are presented in undergraduate courses. Throughout the time period studied, independence, pursuit of a career, and romance were prominent themes in the representation of voluntary childlessness. Other themes emerged specific to each decade—the 1950s portrayed parenthood as a challenge, while the 1990s concen…
The academic attitudes of American teenagers, 1990-2002: Cohort and gender effects on math achievement
Cultural capital and first-generation college success
Concerted Cultivation and Teachers' Evaluations of Students: Exploring the Intersection of Race and Parents' Educational Attainment
Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey and Lareau's concept of concerted cultivation-the idea that educational and financial resources result in different cultural logics in the approach to parenting-the authors examine racial and educational differences in the relationship between parenting practices during elementary school and teachers' evaluations of students' (1) language and literacy skills, (2) approaches to learning, and …
Cultural Capital and Education
Feminization of arts participation and extracurricular activities? Gender differences in cultural capital and bullying victimization
The cultural practices of first-generation college graduates: The role of childhood cultural exposure
Trends in the Relative Influence of Education and Income on Highbrow Taste, 1982-2012
Although numerous studies have confirmed the separate effects of economic and cultural capital on arts participation, research focusing on the cumulative and interactive effects of economic and cultural capital through the creation of taste publics is limited. Using data from the United States (Survey of Public Participation in the Arts [1982-2012]), this research integrates economic and cultural capital-measured as income and education-into the …
What's Race Got to Do With It? Disrupting Whiteness in Cultural Capital Research
In this essay, we argue that Whiteness is intrinsic to Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital, yet it remains unmarked within U.S.-based sociology of education research. As a result, these studies treat race as a tangential issue as opposed to a structure that is foundational to how society is organized and functions. We disrupt this unmarked relationship between Whiteness and cultural capital by (1) reviewing Bourdieu's work on race, class, and …
Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility
Regional differences in cultural participation in the United States and Europe
Cultural participation is socio-demographically stratified. However, the link between one’s region of residence and their cultural participation is understudied. We study this link in five countries: Denmark, Finland, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Cultural policies are typically constructed to level regional differences in cultural participation, so we chose the countries in our analysis to represent different well-known cult…
Psychology (16 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Social science (10 works) · Cultural capital (9 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · School Choice and Performance (8 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Diverse Music Education Insights (6 works)