Schooling and social capital in diverse cultures
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Schooling and social capital in diverse cultures
(Research in sociology of education / series editors Bruce Fuller and Emily Hannum, v. 13)
JAI, 2002
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
One of the most seductive topics in recent years is the field of social capital - the webs of trust, mutual obligation, and cultural knowledge that flow through local information - that yield resources in human-scale associations of individuals. When we ask about the implications for children's learning and performance in the school institution, however, the construct quickly becomes slippery to hold. The 2001 volume provides five papers that offer empirical evidence on the nature and life of social capital across diverse ethnic groups and cultural settings. These fresh studies delve into the resources embedded in Latino and Asian-American peer groups, how immigrant parents' networks and norms variably push their children to achieve in school, and how teenagers' involvement in ethnic-rooted churches contribute social capital. The volume includes three commentaries, authored by David Baker, Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, and Raymond Wong, and a review chapter by the editors.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: scaffolds for school achievement? The institutional foundations of social capital, B. Fuller, E. Hannum
- Social capital and immigrant children's achievement, C.L Bankston III, Min Zhou
- Family and non-family roots of social capital - Vietnamese and Mexican American children, K.A Goyette, G.Q. Conchas
- Commentary A - Use and misuses of social capital in studying school attainment, P. Fernandez Kelly
- Ethnic differences in parents' educational aspirations, G. Kao
- Schooling alternatives, inequality, and mobility in Israel, Y. Shavit et al
- Commentary B - Is social capital the self-esteem of the 1990s?, M. Schaub, D.P. Baker
- Getting ahead in Kenya: social capital, shadow education, and achievement, C. Buchman
- Commentary C - Cultural and social capital in educational research, R. Sin-Kwok Wong
- Conclusions - social capital, institutions, and stratification - contributions of the cross-cultural perspective, E. Hannum, Bruce Fuller.
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