When in Doubt, Ask the Subject
A Response to Egan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11623734 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jane Allyn Piliavin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 208-208 |
| Publication date | 1989-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Teaching Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-055X • E-ISSN: 1939-862X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1317463 |
| OpenAlex | W2330327039 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
My first reaction to the Egan paper was that it was quite thought-provoking. My intuition was in line with the author's regarding her characterization of the three structural features of school: the expectation for independence in the role, the subordinate and dependent social status of students, and the expectation that graduate student would be one's primary role. I hoped, on the other hand, that her concerns with the undesirable impact of these features on students' self-concepts were exaggerated. Early in the paper, the author states that she will discuss specific factors affecting the self, recognizing that the causal role of the structural aspects I examine is mediated by individual variability among entering students. This seems very reasonable: the impact of school should be very different for different students, depending upon one's undergraduate experience, and possibly upon some demographic features such as gender. Unfortunately, she then goes on to make a series of sweeping generalizations, unmodified by any attention to the effects of these different back
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2021 (31) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |