Cultural Capital, Educational Attainment, and Marital Selection

DiMaggio, Paul; Mohr, John W.

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“…In line with the work of Pierre Bourdieu (1984), previous research suggests that cultural proclivities play an important role in shaping social boundaries (Carter, 2003;DiMaggio and Mohr, 1985;Erickson, 1996) and that "culture and social relations empirically interpenetrate with and mutually condition one another so thoroughly that it is well-nigh impossible to conceive of the one without the other" (Emirbayer andGoodwin, 1994, p. 1438). Because network analysis prioritizes relations over attributes, however, network datasets tend to exclude such "cultural" variables as tastes, values, and meanings.…”

Section: Cultural Datamentioning

confidence: 84%

“…Both products of social position (Katz-Gerro, 1999;Bourdieu, 1984;Hughes and Peterson, 1983) and resources for achievement, coordination, and domination (Erickson, 1996;DiMaggio and Mohr, 1985;Bourdieu, 1984), cultural proclivities constitute an integral part of our identities-yet they can be fleeting, abstract, and notoriously difficult to operationalize.…”

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“…Many studies have used attendance at "high culture" events or other behavioral requirements as proxies for cultural capital or "highbrow" tastes (e.g. DiMaggio and Mohr, 1985;van Eijck, 2001;Lizardo, 2006). There is also a prevalent and unquestioned assumption that tastes fall along a one-dimensional spectrum of "like/dislike" according to genre (e.g.…”

Section: Culturementioning

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Tastes, ties, and time: A new social network dataset using Facebook.com

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a b s t r a c tScholars have long recognized the potential of Internet-based communication technologies for improving network research-potential that, to date, remains largely underexploited. In the first half of this paper, we introduce a new public dataset based on manipulations and embellishments of a popular social network site, Facebook.com. We emphasize five distinctive features of this dataset and highlight its advantages and limitations vis-à-vis other kinds of network data. In the second half of this paper, we present descriptive findings from our first wave of data. Subgroups defined by gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status are characterized by distinct network behaviors, and students sharing social relationships as well as demographic traits tend to share a significant number of cultural preferences. These findings exemplify the scientific and pedagogical potential of this new network resource and provide a starting point for future analyses.

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“…Dessa forma, semelhanças culturais favoreceriam a atração entre as pessoas, facilitariam a convivência e contribuiriam para o entendimento mútuo (DiMaggio e Mohr, 1985;Kalmijn, 1994). Na prática, a partir de análises empíricas, é muito difícil definir se as pessoas escolhem seus parceiros em uma competição no mercado matrimonial ou em um processo de procura por pessoas culturalmente semelhantes.…”

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Cor, educação e casamento: tendências da seletividade marital no Brasil, 1960 a 2000

Ribeiro¹,

Silva²

2009

Dados

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INTRODUÇÃOE studos sobre casamentos inter-raciais no Brasil têm indicado que os indivíduos autoidentificados como pardos têm chances maiores de se casar com brancos do que com pretos. Ou seja, no mercado matrimonial, pardos se encontram relativamente mais próximos de brancos, e os pretos parecem estar mais isolados se comparados a esses dois outros grupos (Silva, 1987). Esses resultados sugerem que as distâncias separando brancos, pardos e pretos, no mercado matrimonial, não seriam equivalentes às distâncias mais estritamente socioeconô-micas entre os grupos de cor, ou raciais, uma vez que essas desigualdades no sistema educacional e no mercado de trabalho indicam claramente que pardos estão bem mais próximos de pretos e que ambos os grupos estão em clara desvantagem em relação aos brancos. Além disso, utilizando dados de 1980, os estudos sobre o mercado matrimonial preveem um crescente aumento dos casamentos inter-raciais (ibidem; 1992). Esses padrões de casamento inter-racial favorecem o aumento da miscigenação e sugerem que as relações raciais no Brasil se caracterizam por uma crescente fluidez ou abertura à aceitação dos 7 * Carlos Antonio Costa Ribeiro agradece o apoio do Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, onde este artigo foi concebido e escrito.

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“…According to Bourdieu and Passeron (1964), the nature of this knowledge and these capacities links up much better with the primary socialization experiences of children from higher social classes than with those of children from lower classes. Therefore, the children of culturally active (and often highly educated) parents have greater access to higher education levels than children without this cultural background (Bourdieu and Passeron, 1964;Bernstein 1970;DiMaggio and Mohr, 1985;De Graaf, 1987). According to this theory, as schools fail to take account of the diversity of students' cultural background, students who lack basic acquaintance with the crucial cultural codes lag behind from the start.…”

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Do changes in socialization lead to decline in reading level?How parents, literary education, and popular culture affect the level of books read

Verboord

Rees

2003

Poetics

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The influence of reading socialization on the level of books read in adult life was investigated for birth cohorts who finished secondary education between 1975 and 1998. Three forms of reading socialization were taken into account: socialization in the parental home, literary socialization at secondary school, and socialization through popular culture. Data on these modes of socialization were gathered by questioning the socializing agents (parents and literature teachers), in addition to the target group of (former) students. The level of books read was measured using direct indicators of authors' prestige in the literary field. Multi-level analyses show positive effects of parents with a high reading level and number of hours spent on literary education at school. Frequent watching of television at a young age was found to affect reading level negatively. However, trends in reading level among cohorts could not be explained by trends in reading socialization. #

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Cultural Capital, Educational Attainment, and Marital Selection

Cited by 718 publications

References 34 publications

Tastes, ties, and time: A new social network dataset using Facebook.com

Tastes, ties, and time: A new social network dataset using Facebook.com

Cor, educação e casamento: tendências da seletividade marital no Brasil, 1960 a 2000

Do changes in socialization lead to decline in reading level?How parents, literary education, and popular culture affect the level of books read

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