Social class and approaches to shaping educational expectations.
Br J Sociol
; 74(2): 131-147, 2023 Mar.
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| ID: mdl-36727660
Scholars have recognized young people's educational expectations as a key factor in predicting educational outcomes, but few studies have attempted a comprehensive classification of how young people's educational expectations are shaped. In this article, I outline a typology of how young people from different social class origins shape their educational expectations. Drawing on 100 interviews with 15-year-olds, I find two underlying dimensions in young people's accounts of their educational expectations: how risk aware they are and how goal oriented they are. These dimensions translate into a heuristic model for understanding the structure of young people's educational expectations. I identify four major approaches to shaping educational expectations - the confident, the determined, the explorative, and the anxious - and show how these approaches connect to the young people's class origin. The typology of approaches offers a conceptual framework for understanding the mechanisms that lead young people to shape their expectations in qualitatively different ways.
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Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Clase Social
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Motivación
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
Aspecto:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
Límite:
Adolescent
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Br J Sociol
Año:
2023
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Dinamarca
Pais de publicación:
Reino Unido