Conceptualizing and Measuring School Social Networks: Comment on Morgan and Sorensen

Hallinan, Maureen T.; Kubitschek, Warren N.

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“…Recently, for example, Morgan and Sorensen (1999), Carbonaro (1999), and Hallinan and Kubitschek (1999) debated whether social capital positively influences educational performance. Moreover, as we will see later, the link between parental assistance in homework and academic performance is counter to what we might expect.…”

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Advancing Age, Advantaged Youth: Parental Age and the Transmission of Resources to Children

Powell¹,

Steelman²,

Carini³

2006

Social Forces

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Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988, we identify parental age as influential in the parental provision of economic resources, social capital and cultural capital to adolescents, as well as in parental educational expectations for their children. At the bivariate level, the relationship is curvilinear, suggesting that having comparatively young or old parents is disadvantageous to teenagers, at least with regard to resource allocation. With controls for socioeconomic background and family structure, however, the pattern typically becomes positive and linear: as the age of the parent rises, so too does the transmission of resources to adolescent offspring. These patterns hold for most economic, social and cultural resources, although the pattern is strongest for economic ones and weakest -albeit still significant-for more interactional ones. Although maternal age is the primary focus of this article, supplementary analyses also confirm a generally positive relationship between paternal age and parental resources. These results suggest that parental age may warrant attention similar to that given to family structure, race and gender.

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Section: Parental Age and Resources To Children • 1379mentioning

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Advancing Age, Advantaged Youth: Parental Age and the Transmission of Resources to Children

Powell¹,

Steelman²,

Carini³

2006

Social Forces

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“…He argues that the density of social Lies among parents within the community constitutes a form of intergenerational closure that provides social control over children's activities and directs them towards socially accepted goals. The effect of a school where many parents know one another should therefore be considered as distinct from the effect of individual parents knowing other parents (Carbonaro 1989(Carbonaro , 1999Hallinan and Kubitschek 1999;Morgan and Sorenson 1999). This has not been adequately operationalized in prior research, which has relied on individual-level measures of intergenerational closure.…”

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Familial and Religious Influences on Adolescent Alcohol Use: A Multi-Level Study of Students and School Communities

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A multi-level Durkheimian theory offamilial and religious influences on adolescent alcohol use is developed and tested with hierarchical linear modeling of data from Icelandic schools and students. On the individual level, traditional family structure, parental monitoring, paren tal support, religious participation, and perceptions of divine support and social constraint are associated with less adolescent alcohol use. Individual parents knowing other parents (intergenerational closure) is not associated with less alcohol use among their children, but all students drink less in schools where such intergenerational closure is high. The religiosity of individual parents is not significantly related to their children's alcohol use, but female students drink significantly less in schools where religious parents are more prevalent. The results are generally consistent with the proposed theoretical model.

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“…As minority parents' level of education increased, so did their number of acquaintances with other parents, but the number never approached the level of acquaintances that Caucasian parents had. Similarly, Hallinan and Kubitschek (1999) raised similar concerns over the conceptualization and measurement issues in Morgan and Sorensen's study. The acquaintances and communications between parents positively influenced student performance in Pong's study (1997) but were associated negatively with achievement in Morgan and Sorensen's research (1999).…”

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Parent Involvement and Mathematics Achievement: Contrast Across Racial and Ethnic Groups

Yan

2005

The Journal of Educational Research

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arent involvement, as a family educational input, has been advocated as a resource for school success in recent research and policy literature in the ABSTRACT The authors examined the relationships of 3 dimensions of parent involvement (family obligations, family norms, and parent information networks) to 12th-grade students' mathematics achievement and ways in which these relationships varied across 4 racial and ethnic groups (i.e., Caucasians, African Americans, Hispanics, and Asians). Using 4-year longitudinal data from the National Education Longitudinal Study:1988 (NELS:88), the authors factor analyzed 39 parent involvement variables to create 9 composites, whose relationship to 12th graders' mathematics scores were assessed with ordinary least squares regression. Findings indicate that parent involvement as a form of social capital was generally a salient indicator for explaining the mathematics achievement of the Caucasian students. Close parent-teenager relationship was 1 of the major ways in which minority (except Hispanic) families positively influenced the senior mathematics outcome. Regardless of racial or ethnic background, educational expectation had the strongest positive effect on 12th graders' mathematics achievement.

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Conceptualizing and Measuring School Social Networks: Comment on Morgan and Sorensen

Cited by 80 publications

References 2 publications

Advancing Age, Advantaged Youth: Parental Age and the Transmission of Resources to Children

Advancing Age, Advantaged Youth: Parental Age and the Transmission of Resources to Children

Familial and Religious Influences on Adolescent Alcohol Use: A Multi-Level Study of Students and School Communities

Parent Involvement and Mathematics Achievement: Contrast Across Racial and Ethnic Groups

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