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On the Edge of Commitment
Stephen Lawrence Morgan
其他書名
Educational Attainment and Race in the United States
出版Stanford University Press, 2005
主題Education / Multicultural EducationEducation / Higher
ISBN080474419X9780804744195
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=bAOkMlPJyloC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The importance of educational certification for labor market success has increased since the 1970s. But social sciences still cannot answer a fundamental question: Who goes to college and why? In On the Edge of Commitment, Stephen L. Morgan offers a new model of educational achievement to explain why some students are committed to preparation for college.

Morgan's model unites in one common framework the forward-looking cost-benefit assessments of students with social influence processes. The model is then used to explain puzzling race differences in patterns of high school achievement and subsequent rates of college enrollment. The book, using this model, makes a major theoretical statement on the process of educational achievement, which will help to launch a new generation of empirical work.