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Predictors of subjective age in people aged 40-79 years: a five-year follow-up study. The impact of mastery, mental and physical health.
TL;DR: Most respondents feel younger than their chronological age, the more the older they are, and self-rated physical and mental health and personal mastery are associated with SAP and vary in different age groups.
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Handbook of Research on School Choice
TL;DR: Berends et al. as discussed by the authors review several social perspectives on choice: rational choice theory, institutional theory, social capital theory, and the social organization of schooling, and argue that there is a need for researchers to expand this latter perspective to examine what occurs inside the black box of schools of choice.
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Soziologische Theorie kontrovers
Gert Albert,Steffen Sigmund +1 more
TL;DR: Handlungstheorie: Der Rational Choice-Ansatz - Anomalien, Erweiterungen, Alternativen - Ordnungsthetorie: Die Pluralitat von Modellen sozialer ordnung und das Koordinationsproblem - Kulturtheorie: Kritik und Verteidigung des subjektivistischen Kulturobegriffs - Methodologie, Methodologies, Methoden, Ontologie: Ubergreifende Problemperspekt
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Working-Class Participation, Middle-Class Aspiration? Value, Upward Mobility and Symbolic Indebtedness in Higher Education
TL;DR: This article examined the relationship between working-class participation in higher education (HE) and social and cultural mobility and argued that embarking on a university education for workingclass people has been construed in governmental discourses as an instrumental means of achieving upward mobility, or of aspiring to become middle class.
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Minority College Students and Tacit "Codes of Power": Developing Academic Discourses and Identities
TL;DR: The authors posit that linguistic and communicative dissonance from the discourse community of the university prohibits the development of a collegiate academic academic identify, because language is so strongly rooted to culture and identity, some minority students openly resist the adoption of the very discursive skills they need to survive and thrive at college.
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Communities of Practice and Social Learning Systems: the Career of a Concept
TL;DR: The concept of community of practice was not born in the systems theory tradition as discussed by the authors, but it has its roots in attempts to develop accounts of the social nature of human learning inspired by anthropology and social theory.
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Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys
TL;DR: In this article, the Flatlands of Oakland and the Youth Control Complex are discussed. But the focus is on the role of black youth in the criminal justice system and community institutions.
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Learning to Be Illegal: Undocumented Youth and Shifting Legal Contexts in the Transition to Adulthood
TL;DR: The authors examines the transition to adulthood among 1.5-generation undocumented Latino young adults and finds that for them, the transition from K to adulthood involves exiting the legally protected status of K to...
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New Conceptual Frameworks for Student Engagement Research, Policy, and Practice
Michael A. Lawson,Hal A. Lawson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, student engagement research, policy, and practice must become more nuanced and less formulaic, and the ensuing review is structured accordingly, guided in part by social-ecological analysis and social-cultural theory.
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The Significance of Relationships: Academic Engagement and Achievement Among Newcomer Immigrant Youth
TL;DR: The Longitudinal Immigrant Student Adaptation Study (LISA) as discussed by the authors used a mixed-methods approach, combining longitudinal, interdisciplinary, qualitative, and quantitative approaches to document adaptation patterns of 407 recently arrived immigrant youth from Central America, China, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Mexico over the course of five years.