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Multiple social contexts of education: systematic commonalities, differences and interrelations
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Abstract Analyses of social contexts are almost universal in social research. In many cases, however, they are not explicitly labelled or even recognized as such. The conceptual aspect of ‘context’ then remains implicit in the substantive research question - such as when investigating the effects of 'social ... view more
Analyses of social contexts are almost universal in social research. In many cases, however, they are not explicitly labelled or even recognized as such. The conceptual aspect of ‘context’ then remains implicit in the substantive research question - such as when investigating the effects of 'social background' as a characteristic of an individual’s parental or family context. Systematic commonalities can be found among various analyses that either implicitly or explicitly deal with social contexts and their relevance for education. This article presents a formal classification of relevant contexts and their effects on education, discusses common methodological issues of contextual analyses and gives a brief survey of important findings in relevant research areas - in particular, family effects, peer effects, school effects and effects that can be associated with larger socio-economic contexts and institutional systems.... view less
Keywords
educational opportunity; participation in education; social factors; social background; context analysis
Classification
Sociology of Education
Free Keywords
educational contexts; context effects; family; peers; school; spatial context; institutional context
Collection Title
Research Handbook on the Sociology of Education
Editor
Becker, Rolf
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing
City
Cheltenham
Page/Pages
p. 69-87
Series
Research Handbooks in Sociology
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788110426.00012
ISBN
978-1-78811-042-6
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications