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Author: Jaeger, Mads Meier
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Jaeger, Mads Meier |
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A Dynamic Model of Cultural Reproduction American Journal of Sociology 121,4 (January 2016): 1079-1115. Also: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/684012 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Children, Academic Development; Extracurricular Activities/Sports; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Modeling, Fixed Effects; Parental Influences; Parental Investments; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Siblings; Social Capital The authors draw on Pierre Bourdieu's theory of cultural reproduction to develop a formal model of the pathways through which cultural capital acts to enhance children's educational and socioeconomic success. The authors' approach brings conceptual and empirical clarity to an important area of study. Their model describes how parents transmit cultural capital to their children and how children convert cultural capital into educational success. It also provides a behavioral framework for interpreting parental investments in cultural capital. The authors review results from existing empirical research on the role of cultural capital in education to demonstrate the usefulness of their model for interpretative purposes, and they use National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979--Children and Young Adults survey data to test some of its implications. |
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Jaeger, Mads Meier. "A Dynamic Model of Cultural Reproduction." American Journal of Sociology 121,4 (January 2016): 1079-1115.
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Does Cultural Capital Really Affect Academic Achievement? New Evidence from Combined Sibling and Panel Data Sociology of Education 84,4 (October 2011): 281-298. Also: http://soe.sagepub.com/content/84/4/281.full Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Bias Decomposition; Children, Academic Development; Extracurricular Activities/Sports; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Modeling, Fixed Effects; Parental Influences; Parental Investments; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Siblings; Social Capital Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This article provides new estimates of the causal effect of cultural capital on academic achievement. The author analyzes data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth–Children and Young Adults and uses a fixed effect design to address the problem of omitted variable bias, which has resulted in too optimistic results in previous research. After controlling for family and individual fixed effects, the author reports that (1) six indicators of cultural capital have mostly positive direct effects on children’s reading and math test scores, (2) the effect of cultural capital is smaller than previously reported, and (3) the effect of cultural capital varies in high and low socioeconomic status (SES) environments. Results mostly support cultural reproduction theory (cultural capital more important in high SES environments) for cultural capital indicators capturing familiarity with legitimate culture and mostly support cultural mobility theory (cultural capital more important in low SES environments) for indicators capturing “concerted cultivation.” |
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Jaeger, Mads Meier. "Does Cultural Capital Really Affect Academic Achievement? New Evidence from Combined Sibling and Panel Data." Sociology of Education 84,4 (October 2011): 281-298.
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Jaeger, Mads Meier Karlson, Kristian |
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Cultural Capital and Educational Inequality: A Counterfactual Analysis Sociological Science published online (12 December 2018): DOI: 10.15195/v5.a33. Also: https://sociologicalscience.com/articles-v5-33-775/ Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Sociological Science Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Mobility; Parental Influences; Socioeconomic Status (SES) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We use National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) data and a counterfactual approach to test the macro-level implications of cultural reproduction and cultural mobility theory. Our counterfactual analyses show that the observed socioeconomic gradient in children's educational attainment in the NLSY79 data would be smaller if cultural capital was more equally distributed between children whose parents are of low socioeconomic status (SES) and those whose parents are of high SES. They also show that hypothetically increasing cultural capital among low-SES parents would lead to a larger reduction in the socioeconomic gradient in educational attainment than reducing it among high-SES parents. These findings are consistent with cultural mobility theory (which argues that low-SES children have a higher return to cultural capital than high-SES children) but not with cultural reproduction theory (which argues that low-SES children have a lower return to cultural capital). Our analysis contributes to existing research by demonstrating that the unequal distribution of cultural capital shapes educational inequality at the macro level. |
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Jaeger, Mads Meier and Kristian Karlson. "Cultural Capital and Educational Inequality: A Counterfactual Analysis." Sociological Science published online (12 December 2018): DOI: 10.15195/v5.a33.
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