The Long Shadow: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood
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...Although she had been admitted to a four-year college, she did not attend (Lareau 2011).8 Still, overall, the life paths of the young people in the study varied powerfully by parents’ social class, a pattern amply documented in the literature (Alexander et al. 2014)....
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...…offerings; track assignment; college application, acceptance, and enrollment; decisions about majors; and applications to graduate school (see Alexander, Entwisle, and Olsen 2014; Collins 2009; Klugman 2013; Mullen 2010; Pallas and Jennings 2009).2 Research consistently shows that parents’…...
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...Educational achievements also are deeply shaped by parents’ class positions (Alexander et al. 2014)....
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...Along similar lines, the status attainment model posits that a key mechanism through which parental occupational and educational attainment is transmitted to children is through social psychological processes—parents have aspirations and expectations based on their own class standing that they transmit to their children, which shapes attainment (Alexander et al. 2014; Sewell, Haller, and Portes 1969)....
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...…and educational attainment is transmitted to children is through social psychological processes—parents have aspirations and expectations based on their own class standing that they transmit to their children, which shapes attainment (Alexander et al. 2014; Sewell, Haller, and Portes 1969)....
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...In particular, children’s school achievement, especially grades, have a strong cultural dimension that includes “effort, conformity, and motivation” (Noble and Sawyer 2004:17), and we know that academic achievement predicts eventual educational attainment (Alexander et al. 2014)....
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...predicts eventual educational attainment (Alexander et al. 2014)....
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...Adler and Kwon (2002) define social capital in terms of information, influence, and solidarity, but it seems clear that one of the key resources available from social networks is the ability to actually offer a job or to provide opportunities that concretely lead to specific benefits (Alexander et al., 2014; DiTomaso, 2013; Hewlett, 2013; Royster, 2003)....
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...…influence, and solidarity, but it seems clear that one of the key resources available from social networks is the ability to actually offer a job or to provide opportunities that concretely lead to specific benefits (Alexander et al., 2014; DiTomaso, 2013; Hewlett, 2013; Royster, 2003)....
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...…race and ethnic groups in the US reinforces the ingroup solidarity that contributes to whites primarily helping other whites in the job search process (Alexander et al., 2014; DiTomaso, 2013; Massey, 2007; Royster, 2003; Smith, 2002) and to nonwhites to helping members of their own groups as well....
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..., on the information, influence, or opportunities that are provided by friends and acquaintances, sometimes as payback for favors and good deeds in generalized social relationships in a given community or group and sometimes as the beneficiaries of a close social network (Alexander et al., 2014; DiTomaso, 2013; Granovetter, 1995; Royster, 2003)....
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...…that are provided by friends and acquaintances, sometimes as payback for favors and good deeds in generalized social relationships in a given community or group and sometimes as the beneficiaries of a close social network (Alexander et al., 2014; DiTomaso, 2013; Granovetter, 1995; Royster, 2003)....
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...…we did not observe such differences may be due to the assessment occurring between ages 19 and 25, whenmany young adults, especially those in low-income, urban areas, have few opportunities for employment regardless of their substance use histories (Alexander et al., 2014; Huizinga & Henry, 2008)....
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