Social Capital by Design: Normative Systems and Social Structures in Six High Schools.

Autor/in	Marks, Helen M.
Titel	Social Capital by Design: Normative Systems and Social Structures in Six High Schools.
Quelle	(1999), (57 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Academic Achievement; High Risk Students; High Schools; Norms; Peer Relationship; Power Structure; Social Capital; Social Cognition; Social Differences; Social Exchange Theory; Social Networks; Social Psychology; Social Status; Social Structure; Teacher Effectiveness; Teacher Student Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; Problemschüler; High school; Oberschule; Normwert; Peer-Beziehungen; Sozialkapital; Soziale Kognition; Sozialer Unterschied; Theorie des sozialen Wandels; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Sozialpsychologie; Sozialer Status; Sozialstruktur; Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung
Abstract	This paper focuses on investigating the purposive design of learning environments to counter the erosion of social capital in communities and schools in contemporary society. Can schools intentionally replenish stocks of social capital by creating normative systems conducive to the optimal academic and social development of students, and by designing social structures with closure and continuity to support these normative systems? The study examined the notion of "intentionally created social capital" in relation to six high schools, researched as part of the fieldwork phase of a national study of social capital in high schools. Using one of these schools (a rural high school where naturally occurring social capital is characteristic) as a contrast, the study described the normative systems and social structures in five urban and suburban high schools that have sought to build social capital purposively, intentionally, and by design. By delineating the interrelationship between normative systems and social structures in practice, the study attempted to portray social capital as it exists in schools, and to identify the mechanisms used in its creation. (Contains 33 references.) (TEJ)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC