How Public Confidence in Higher Education Varies by Social Context

Autor/inn/en	Johnson, David R.; Peifer, Jared L.
Titel	How Public Confidence in Higher Education Varies by Social Context
Quelle	In: Journal of Higher Education, 88 (2017) 4, S.619-644 (26 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-1546
DOI	10.1080/00221546.2017.1291256
Schlagwörter	Public Opinion; Social Attitudes; Educational Attitudes; Higher Education; Social Environment; Political Attitudes; Ideology; Religion; Parent Background; Parent Influence; Demography; Sciences; Parent Attitudes; Expectation; Parent Child Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Öffentliche Meinung; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Soziales Umfeld; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Ideologie; Elternhaus; Demografie; Science; Wissenschaft; Elternverhalten; Expectancy; Erwartung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung
Abstract	Some research suggests a crisis of public confidence in universities and colleges in the United States. But approaches to theorizing confidence in higher education do not examine how confidence varies across social contexts, while empirical efforts to document confidence are characteristically limited by weak construct validity. Drawing on a nationally-representative survey of 10,241 Americans, we develop a conceptual framework that examines how political ideology, religion, parental career encouragement, and demographic factors correlate with confidence in higher education. Only fourteen percent of the US public reports "a great deal" of confidence in higher education. Evangelical Protestants, Catholics, Jews, individuals who perceive a conflict between science and religion (and are on the side of religion), and political conservatives are significantly less likely to report confidence in higher education, while parents who report the strongest encouragement of professional career paths for their children are significantly more likely to report confidence in higher education. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01