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On the Edge of Commitment: Educational Attainment and Race in the United States » (1)

Authors: Stephen L. Morgan
ISBN-13: 9780804744195, ISBN-10: 080474419X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Date Published: February 2005
Edition: 1

Stephen L. Morgan is Associate Professor of Sociology at Cornell University.

This book offers a new model of educational achievement to explain why some students are committed to preparation for college.

Ch. 1	Why do we need a new model of educational attainment?	3
Ch. 2	Expectation formation and the status socialization theory of educational attainment	35
Ch. 3	Do beliefs matter? : a reanalysis of the relationship between educational expectations and attainment	57
Ch. 4	The generation of preparatory commitment from forward-looking beliefs	99
Ch. 5	The evolution of the beliefs that determine commitment	139
Ch. 6	Incorporating imitative and normative sources of commitment	175
Ch. 7	A new agenda for the sociology of educational attainment	207