On the edge of commitment : educational attainment and race in the United States
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On the edge of commitment : educational attainment and race in the United States
（Studies in social inequality）
Stanford University Press, 2005
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The importance of educational certification for labor market success has increased since the 1970s. But social sciences still cannot answer a fundamental question: Who goes to college and why? In On the Edge of Commitment, Stephen L. Morgan offers a new model of educational achievement to explain why some students are committed to preparation for college.
Morgan's model unites in one common framework the forward-looking cost-benefit assessments of students with social influence processes. The model is then used to explain puzzling race differences in patterns of high school achievement and subsequent rates of college enrollment. The book, using this model, makes a major theoretical statement on the process of educational achievement, which will help to launch a new generation of empirical work.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents for On the Edge of Commitment List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION Chapter One.A Why Do We Need a New Model of Educational Attainment? COMING TO TERMS WITH THE SOCIOLOGICAL LITERATURE ON EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT Chapter Two.A Expectation Formation and the Status Socialization Theory of Educational Attainment Chapter Three.A Do Beliefs Matter? A Reanalysis of the Relationship Between Educational Expectations and Attainment A COMMITMENT-BASED MODEL OF EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT Chapter Four.A The Generation of Preparatory Commitment from Forward-Looking Beliefs Chapter Five.A The Evolution of the Beliefs That Determine Commitment Chapter Six.A Incorporating Imitative and Normative Sources of Commitment Chapter Seven.A A New Agenda for the Sociology of Educational Attainment References Index
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