Education as a Positional Good? Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

Durst, Alessa K.

doi:10.1007/s11205-021-02619-5

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“…Apart from that, public trust and support for teachers and school institutions will encourage the formation of a sound and complete education system. According to Durst, trust from the community and students towards teachers can provide positive support between education and life satisfaction in society (Durst, 2021). With this, teachers should see that education is part of social activity, not just learning to transform knowledge in the classroom (Tembo, 2021).…”

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Implementation of Albert Bandura’s Social Learning Theory in Student Character Development

Khozin,

Tobroni,

Rozza

2024

IJAM

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This research aims to describe and analyze teacher personality in shaping student character at school. This research uses a qualitative approach with a case study type in an elementary school. Data collection techniques were carried out using observation, interviews, and documentation. Data analysis techniques are carried out by condensing, presenting, and drawing conclusions. The research results show that teachers teachers have personality competencies and pedagogical competencies that encourage better learning. Teachers have attempted character development by integrating noble character values during school. This effort goes through four stages: attentional, retention, motor reproduction, and motivational. Suppose teachers can be good role models while at school, students will gradually be able to pay attention and become motivated by their actions. This will present student impulses that work below the level of consciousness to demonstrate the virtues modeled by the teacher. This is as explained in social learning theory by Albert Bandura.

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Implementation of Albert Bandura’s Social Learning Theory in Student Character Development

Khozin,

Tobroni,

Rozza

2024

IJAM

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“…This study addressed a research gap concerning the insufficient consideration of education as a positional good in the literature so far [ 38 ]. We found no clear evidence supporting the positional model of education and conclude that education expansion remains one of the most important ways of improving economic outcomes for Romanian youth.…”

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Predictors of Economic Outcomes among Romanian Youth: The Influence of Education—An Empirical Approach Based on Elastic Net Regression

Zamfir

Davidescu

Mocanu

2022

IJERPH

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Young people have to be provided with opportunities to access prosperous, resilient and fulfilling lives. Investing in education and skills is considered one of the most important ways to support young people’s well-being and to enable them to enjoy good career prospects. Using the framework of human capital theory, we explored the role of education among the factors explaining wage variation among Romanian youth. We built our analysis on micro-data for Romania from the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions 2020. In order to identify the most important factors influencing the wage distribution, we employed the elastic net regression approach. Moreover, we considered the phenomenon of expansion of education and ran the analysis by alternately using a traditional measure for education and a relative measure reflecting the theory of education as positional good. We ran the analysis for different cohorts of the population, focusing the discussion on the results for young people. Our findings confirm the importance of education for wage distribution together with other factors of influence, such as gender, degree of urbanization, region, sector of employment and working experience. Our conclusions are relevant for designing more effective educational and social policies to deal with various disadvantages faced by youth in Romania.

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“…The scope of Social Psychology in understanding biases against less educated groups and individuals is limited (Durst, 2021; Kuppens et al., 2018; Spruyt & Kuppens, 2015a, 2015b). Research on education‐based intergroup attitudes has been made by a few researchers who highlight how, in today's society, the devaluation of lesser educated individuals and groups seems to be more permissible and goes unnoticed as a form of bias when it is compared with discrimination against other national or ethnic categories (Kuppens et al., 2018).…”

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Not all ballots should be considered equal: How education‐based dehumanization undermines the democratic social contract

Sainz,

Vázquez

2023

British J Social Psychol

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Less educated people are viewed negatively and their opinions are belittled in our society. Besides, along with other groups, they are underrepresented in the political arena which questions the legitimacy of democratic systems. Despite the existence of education‐based devaluation, research on how people dehumanize individuals and groups with lesser education and minimize their democratic rights is scarce. In this project, we provide correlational evidence that less (vs. highly) educated individuals and groups are dehumanized (Study 1a, N = 304) and their democratic rights (voting, running for office) are questioned (Study 1b, N = 504). Furthermore, we identified that dehumanization tendencies of the less (vs. highly) educated targets predict support for denying them voting rights or the capability to run for public candidacies (Study 2, N = 447). Finally, an experimental study confirmed that the target's educational background influences attributions of humanity, which in turn seem to affect the denial of democratic rights to the target (Study 3, N = 470). These findings suggest that education‐based dehumanization might undermine the inalienable democratic rights of lesser educated individuals and groups thus endangering the foundations of democratic systems.

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Education as a Positional Good? Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

Cited by 14 publications

References 39 publications

Implementation of Albert Bandura’s Social Learning Theory in Student Character Development

Implementation of Albert Bandura’s Social Learning Theory in Student Character Development

Predictors of Economic Outcomes among Romanian Youth: The Influence of Education—An Empirical Approach Based on Elastic Net Regression

Not all ballots should be considered equal: How education‐based dehumanization undermines the democratic social contract

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