Change in the Stratification of Educational Expectations and Their Realization

Autor/inn/en	Reynolds, John R.; Johnson, Monica Kirkpatrick
Titel	Change in the Stratification of Educational Expectations and Their Realization
Quelle	In: Social Forces, 90 (2011) 1, S.85-109 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0037-7732
DOI	10.1093/sf/90.1.85
Schlagwörter	Dropouts; Educational Attainment; Young Adults; Academic Aspiration; Educational Trends; Trend Analysis; Social Stratification; Cohort Analysis; Expectation; Graduation Rate; Bachelors Degrees; Graduate Study; Gender Issues; Minority Group Students; Socioeconomic Status; High School Seniors; Longitudinal Studies; Interviews; Social Indicators; Sociometric Techniques; Sociocultural Patterns; Socioeconomic Influences; Barriers; Federal Aid + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Bildungsentwicklung; Trendanalyse; Soziale Zusammensetzung; Kohortenanalyse; Expectancy; Erwartung; 'Bachelor''s degrees'; Bachelor-Studiengang; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Geschlechterfrage; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Social indicator; Sozialer Indikator; Soziometrie; Soziokulturelle Theorie; Sozioökonomischer Faktor
Abstract	What do recent trends toward increasingly ambitious educational expectations and rising college completion rates mean for the stratification of higher education? This article shows that the odds of achieving expectations for a bachelor's degree increased across 15 cohorts of young adults, and to a lesser extent, for expectations to attend graduate/professional school. Gender-related constraints on realizing expectations for a bachelor's degree weakened, while constraints associated with minority racial/ethnic and lower socioeconomic statuses did not. Recent trends in educational stratification were thus a mixture of fulfilled expectations for growing proportions of some young adults, but continued social constraints for many others. Note, these results are derived from the experiences of high school seniors successfully reinterviewed over time, who are advantaged relative to school dropouts and nonrespondents. [An earlier version of this article was presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, LA.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10