Ilana M. Horwitz

TL;DR: Practical limits to the predictability of life outcomes in some settings are suggested and the value of mass collaborations in the social sciences is illustrated.

TL;DR: This paper proposed that Jewish identity be understood primarily as a relational phenomenon that is constructed through social ties, rather than as a product of individual meaning-making or assessments of social impact, and examined the implications of that conceptual shift for scholars and scholarship on Jewish identity in the 21st century.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors synthesize literature on how adolescents' religious commitment and background are associated with their short-and long-term academic outcomes and reveal a paradoxical "effect" of academic achievement and religiosity versus-religious tradition.

TL;DR: The authors found a preference for people who described themselves as not religious, and a near-total absence of the language of ethnicity in interviews with post-boomer American Jews, who volunteered tradition as a replacement for both and as part of a rationale for the elements of Jewish life that compelled them to participate.

TL;DR: In this paper , the role of religious habitus and self-concept in educational stratification was investigated. But the authors focused on the role that religious subculture is a key factor in educational success, and divergent paths to selfconcept congruence can help explain why educational outcomes vary by religion in gendered ways.