The Social Structure of School Resource Disparities
How Social Capital and Interorganizational Relationships Matter for Educational Equity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2328552 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E N Bridwell-Mitchell (0000-0002-7531-4229, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, corresponding author), James Jack (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA), Joshua Childs (0000-0003-4181-0360, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 96 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 275-300 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0407 • E-ISSN: 1939-8573 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00380407231176541 |
| OpenAlex | W4383553261 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 54 |
One potentially underestimated aspect of resource inequity in U.S. public schools is access to social capital in external organizational environments. This research examines partnerships among 211 New York City high schools and 918 partner organizations from 2001 to 2005 as sources of external school social capital providing resources that can strengthen organizational capacity to improve educational opportunities and outcomes. The findings, based on an innovative analysis combining content analysis, social network analysis, and multilevel modeling, demonstrate that four partnership characteristics are important in this context: (1) how long partnerships last versus how many there are, (2) partners concentrating resources in a particular area versus across diverse complementary areas, (3) partners being densely connected to other schools and partners rather than being central in the overall school-partner network, and (4) partners conveying instructional resources versus other kinds of resources. Hence, educational research and policy should more broadly conceptualize how schools' external organizational environments matter for educational equity and the role particular kinds of partnerships can play
Business · Context (archaeology) · Educational Equity · Equity (law) · General partnership · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Resource (disambiguation) · Social capital · Social network analysis · Social science · Sociology · Parental Involvement in Education · School Choice and Performance · Social Capital and Networks
Applied Multivariate Statistics for the Social Sciences
Social Network Analysis
The New Middle Management
Assessing the Effects of School Resources on Student Performance
The legitimacy of strategic alliances
The Effects of School Spending on Educational and Economic Outcomes
Social capital as social networks
Sample Selection Bias as a Specification Error
The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data
Handbook of theory and research for the sociology of education
Multilevel Modeling Using Mplus
Social Capital
The Organizational Landscape of Schools
The External Control of Organizations
Research–Practice Partnerships in Education
Them That’s Got
Below the Bubble
From Social Ties to Social Capital
Under What Conditions Do School Districts Learn From External Partners? The Role of Absorptive Capacity
Triangulating Principal Effectiveness
Logit and Probit
A note on social capital and network content
Parent Involvement, Cultural Capital, and the Achievement Gap Among Elementary School Children
The Iron Cage Revisited
Introduction-Topic models
Measuring Tie Strength
Do Differences in School Quality Matter More Than We Thought? New Evidence on Educational Opportunity in the Twenty-first Century
Social Capital
Interorganizational Relations
Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital
Institutionalized Organizations
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 5 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |