Does Oppositional Culture Exist in Minority and Poverty Peer Groups?

Farkas, George; Lleras, Christy; Maczuga, Steve

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“…However, empirical studies have failed to provide much support for this argument, although many continue to believe that the lack of evidence comes from inadequate data that is not able to pick up on the nuances of Black adolescent cultural norms (Farkas, Lleras, and Maczuga 2002).…”

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Is it Too Late Baby? Pinpointing the Emergence of a Black-White Test Score Gap in Infancy

Rippeyoung

2009

Sociological Perspectives

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Racial inequality in educational and occupational attainment has been shown to be related to racial inequality in test scores and cognitive skills. Most research and policy attention has been given to the ability of schools to equalize test scores. I argue that a major reason why researchers have been unable to explain why schools have not closed the gap is because by the time children begin school it may be too late. Cognitive skills develop from infancy and as such, it should be unsurprising that by the time children are five years old the differences across groups are firmly established. Thus, this research attempts to uncover where the racial test-score gap begins by examining infants.I perform a series of analyses using ordinary least squares regression (OLS) and structural equation modeling (SEM) using the first wave of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth cohort (ECLS-B). I utilize the mother's race, rather than the child's race, in the analyses because looking at the mother's race makes the most logical sense since the mother's race is more likely than the child's to determine household income, marital status, mother's education, parenting styles, and so on.

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Is it Too Late Baby? Pinpointing the Emergence of a Black-White Test Score Gap in Infancy

Rippeyoung

2009

Sociological Perspectives

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“…Davis (2003) and Mandara (2006) draw attention to the large literature on the underachievement of black boys at all levels of education (see also Fan and Chen, 2001;Steinberg, Dornbusch, and Brown, 1992). Much of this literature is framed in terms of the presence or absence of an "oppositional culture" that differentially affects black youth, and particularly black males, though scholars disagree sharply as to whether black males experience more peer opposition to school effort than do white males either in general or in specific school contexts (Davis, 2003;Farkas, 1996;Farkas et al, 2002;Ainsworth-Darnell, 1998;Flashman, 2008). Mandara has argued that family parenting styles in the African-American family concerning the form of discipline, racial socialization, and the level of parental involvement in education may also play a role in the black gender gap in academic performance.…”

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Social and behavioral skills and the gender gap in early educational achievement

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2012

Social Science Research

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“…It is used primarily in sociology, education, and developmental psychology. Recent 6 MARSDEN studies of resistance to learning (McFarland 2001), oppositional cultures in education (Ainsworth-Darnell & Downey 1998, Farkas et al 2002, the role of cultural capital in educational success (Dumais 2002, Kaufman & Gabler 2004, and adolescent relationships (Giordano 2003) reference AS.…”

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The Sociology of James S. Coleman

Marsden

2005

Annu. Rev. Sociol.

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■ Abstract This chapter surveys the career and scholarship of James S. Coleman.It tracks scholarly usage of his work, with attention to references after 1995 and the subject areas in which its use is concentrated. At base a scholar of problems in social organization, Coleman made influential contributions that range across the sociology of education, policy research, mathematical sociology, network/structural analysis, and sociological theory. Works from several phases of Coleman's career are cited widely by scholars in sociology, education, economics, business/management, and other social science fields; during the past decade his conceptual work on social capital has been most influential. Coleman's widely debated Foundations of Social Theory is receiving increasing attention and has helped to establish a stable if limited niche for rational choice analysis within sociology.

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Does Oppositional Culture Exist in Minority and Poverty Peer Groups?

Cited by 124 publications

References 18 publications

Is it Too Late Baby? Pinpointing the Emergence of a Black-White Test Score Gap in Infancy

Is it Too Late Baby? Pinpointing the Emergence of a Black-White Test Score Gap in Infancy

Social and behavioral skills and the gender gap in early educational achievement

The Sociology of James S. Coleman

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