Social influence or selection? Peer effects on the development of adolescents’ educational expectations in Germany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11166397 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gerda Lorenz (0000-0001-6814-6901, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, corresponding author), Georg Lorenz, Z Boda (0000-0003-1249-5533, ETH Zurich), Zerrin Salikutluk (0000-0002-0052-0693, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Chair for Migration and Gender, and Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research (BIM), Berlin, Germany), Malte Jansen (0000-0001-7081-6505, Institute for Educational Quality Improvement (IQB), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 643-669 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0142-5692 • E-ISSN: 1465-3346 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01425692.2020.1763163 |
| OpenAlex | W3035272614 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 49 |
| References cited | 66 |
Educational expectations are a key predictor of educational attainment. Throughout adolescence, friends increasingly function as ‘significant others’ and, thus, can affect the development of these expectations. Although scholars often interpret the clustering of students with similar expectations within friendship networks as the outcome of peer influence, a similarity of friends can also be a result of friendship selection processes and preselection due to ability tracking. We apply multilevel social network models to panel data of adolescents from Germany (1,992 ninth-grade students in 91 classes) to disentangle these mechanisms. Beyond selecting similar friends (homophily), we find that adolescents adapt their expectations towards the average expectations of their friends (social influence) but only in secondary-school tracks that support diverse educational paths. We conclude that peer socialization is important for the development of students’ educational expectations in contexts that are sufficiently heterogeneous to allow for the emergence of distinct peer milieus
Affect (linguistics · Educational attainment · Friendship · Homophily · Pedagogy · Peer group · Political science · Selection (genetic algorithm · Similarity (geometry · Social influence · Socialization · Tracking (education · Computer Science · Parental Involvement in Education · Psychology · Social Capital and Networks · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 49 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 8,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 49 |