| Autor: |
Plikuhn, Mari, Suitor, J., Gilligan, Megan |
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Conference Papers - American Sociological Association; 2007 Annual Meeting, p1, 20p, 2 Charts |
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The intergenerational transmission of educational attainment has been one of the strongest and most consistent findings in sociology for more than four decades. Explanations for this pattern have focused primarily on the effects of structural factors. Because parents' educational attainment is generally completed before offspring are born, there has been little opportunity to study the ways in which children's observation of their parents' pursuit of education may serve to augment the effects of structural factors on intergenerational transmission processes. In the present paper, we use a combination of qualitative and quantitative data collected from 36 women across a decade following their return to school to examine the effects of their educational achievements on their children's educational aspirations and achievements. The analyses revealed that mothers' return to school affected her children's educational aspirations and outcomes only under particular conditions. In families in which mothers completed their undergraduate degrees after returning, most or all of the children also completed college by early adulthood. Further, these mothers reported that their enrollment had positive effects on their children's educational aspirations and outcomes. In contrast, when women left school without completing their degrees, few or none of their children completed college themselves, and almost none of these mothers reported that their enrollment had any effect on their children. Mothers' completion of college appeared to be the most consequential for children's educational outcomes in families in which fathers were less educated, opposed to mothers' enrollment, and in which the mother's return to school was fueled by personal and psychological, rather than career motivations. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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