Ethnic identity and scholastic effort: a multifaceted approach
| Autor: | Giuseppina Autiero |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Sociology and Political Science I29 media_common.quotation_subject Economics Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) Geography Planning and Development Ethnic group Development Social identity approach 0502 economics and business JV1-9480 ddc:330 Sociology 050207 economics Social identity theory Demography media_common HT201-221 05 social sciences 050301 education Social environment City population. Including children in cities immigration Ethnic identity Cultural heritage Scholastic effort Ethnic identity Personal identity Locus of control Personal identity Anthropology Z10 I20 Scholastic effort Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration 0503 education Identity formation Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | IZA Journal of Development and Migration, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2017) |
| Popis: | When one analyses the influence of social identity on scholastic effort, ethnic identity largely contributes to determine it. In this paper, ethnic identity is meant as the attachment to one’s cultural heritage and the adaptation to host societies; this allows considering how conflicting demands and social pressure from parents, peers, ethnic community and host societies influence children’s effort. Attention is also paid to the locus of control; thereby, the effects of the interaction between the social context—ethnic identity—and personal traits such as the locus of control are considered. The analysis is developed through a theoretical model whose results partly show that children’s effort may be influenced positively by parents with strong attitudes towards adaptation and negatively by their peers in school who belong to marginalized groups vulnerable to discrimination and convinced that school does not improve one’s socio-economic status. Nevertheless, the drawbacks of the social context can be counterbalanced by a strong locus of control. JEL Classification: I20, I29, Z10 |
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