George Farkas - Human capital or cultural capital? : ethnicity and poverty groups in an urban school district

Human capital or cultural capital? : ethnicity and poverty groups in an urban school district — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Human capital or cultural capital? : ethnicity and poverty groups in an urban school district" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

1234567...54

HUMAN CAPITAL
OR CULTURAL CAPITAL?

First published 1996 by Transaction Publishers

Published 2017 by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon 0X14 4RN

711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

Copyright 1996 by Taylor & Francis.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced orutilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now knownor hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in anyinformation storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from thepublishers.

Notice:

Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and areused only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Farkas, George, 1946-

Human capital or cultural capital? : ethnicity and poverty groups in an urban school district / George Farkas.

p. cm. (Social institutions and social change)

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

ISBN 0-202-30523-6 (alk. paper) ISBN 0-202-30524-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. MinoritiesEducationSocial aspectsUnited States. 2. PoorEducationSocial aspectsUnited States. 3. Academic achievementUnited States. 4. Human capitalUnited States. 5. Educational anthropologyUnited States. 6. MinoritiesEducationTexasDallasReadingCase Studies. 7. Reading comprehensionTexasDallasCase studies. 8. ReadingRemedial teachingTexasDallasCase studies. 9. Remedial teachingTexasDallasCase studies. I. Title. II. Series.

LC3731.E37 1996

370.19340973dc20 96-6394

CIP

ISBN 13: 978-0-202-30524-0 (pbk)

Contents

SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIAL CHANGE

An Aldine de Gruyter Series of Texts and Monographs

EDITED BY

Wright James D.

Larry Barnett, Legal Construct, Social Concept: A Macrosociological Perspective on Law

Vern L. Bengtson and W. Andrew Achenbaum, The Changing Contract Across Generations

Thomas G. Blomberg and Stanley Cohen (eds.), Punishment and Social Control: Essays in Honor of Sheldon L. Messinger

Remi Clignet, Death, Deeds, and Descendants: Inheritance in Modem America

Mary Ellen Colten and Susan Gore (eds.), Adolescent Stress: Causes and Consequences

Rand D. Conger and Glen H. Elder, Jr., Families in Troubled Times: Adapting to Change in Rural America

Joel A. Devine and James D. Wright, The Greatest of Evils: Urban Poverty and the American Underclass

G. William Domhoff, The Power Elite and the State: How Policy is Made in America

G. William Domhoff, State Autonomy or Class Dominance? Case Studies on Policy Making in America

Paula S. England, Comparable Worth: Theories and Evidence

Paula S. England, Theory on Gender/Feminism on Theory

George Farkas, Human Capital or Cultural Capital? Ethnicity and Poverty Groups inan Urban School District

Ronald F. Inglehart, Neil Nevitte, Miguel Basaez, North American Trajectory: Growing Cultural, Economics, and Political Ties between the United States, Canada, and Mexico

Gary Kleck, Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America

Dean Knudsen and JoAnn L. Miller (eds.), Abused and Battered: Social and Legal Responses to Family Violence

James R. Kluegel, David S. Mason, and Bemd Wegener (eds.), Social Justice and Political Change: Public Opinion in Capitalist and Post-Communist States

Theodore R. Marmor, The Politics of Medicare(Second Edition)

Thomas S. Moore, The Disposable Work Force: Worker Displacement and Employment Instability in America

Clark McPhail, The Myth of the Madding Crowd

Steven L. Nock, The Costs of Privacy: Surveillance and Reputation in America Talcott Parsons on National Socialism(Edited and with an Introduction by Uta Gerhardt)

James T. Richardson, Joel Best, and David G. Bromley (eds.), The Satanism ScareAlice S. Rossi and Peter H. Rossi, Of Human Bonding: Parent-Child Relations Across the Life Course

Joseph F. Sheley and James D. Wright: In the Line of Fire: Youth, Guns, and Violence in Urban America

David G. Smith, Paying for Medicare: The Politics of Reform

James D. Wright, Address Unknown: The Homeless in America

James D. Wright and Peter H. Rossi, Armed and Considered Dangerous: A Survey of Felons and Their Firearms, (Expanded Edition)

James D. Wright, Peter H. Rossi, and Kathleen Daly, Under the Gun: Weapons, Crime, and Violence in America

Mary Zey, Banking on Fraud: Drexel, Junk Bonds, and Buyouts

About the Author

George Farkas is Professor of Sociology and Political Economy and Founding Director of the Center for Education and Social Policy at the University of Texas-Dallas, in Richardson, Texas. He is the author (with Paula England) of Households, Employment, and Gender (Aldine, 1986) and he edited (with Paula England) Industries, Firms, and Jobs (expanded edition, Aldine, 1994) and (with Ernst Stromsdorfer) Evaluation Studies Review Annual: Volume 5. His articles have appeared in numerous journals.

For Linda and David, who make it all worthwhile

But pray remember, children are not to be taught by rules. What you think necessary for them to do, settle in them by an indispensable practice. This will beget habits in them which being once estab-lished, operate of themselves easily and naturally

This method of teaching children by a repeated practice and the same action done over and over again, under the eye and direction of the tutor, till they have got the habit of doing it well has so many advantages that I cannot but wonder (if ill customs could be wondered at in any thing) how it could possibly be so much neglected.

John Locke (1692)

This study began as a joint project with Daniel Sheehan and Robert Grobe, who served, at the time, as principal evaluator and executive evaluator, respectively, in the Department of Planning, Evaluation, and Testing of the Dallas Independent School District. Even though their professional responsibilities kept them too busy to join me in authoring this work, it is clearly the case that the data would not have been collected, and the study would not have occurred, without their collaboration. I am enormously grateful for all the work they did, and for their continued friendship. I am also grateful to William Webster, the Director of the Division of Program Evaluation Services, for creating and maintaining a professional environment with high intellectual standards, where work of this sort is encouraged.

Yuan Shuan, at the time a doctoral student in political economy at the University of Texas at Dallas, ran many of the regressions reported here. He did this with enormous skill and care, for which I am grateful. Kurt Beron coauthored . Johnnye Heaton input the final tables with skill and dispatch. If Richard Koffler hadnt kept after me, I might never have completed this volume. John Kain provided moral support and valuable advice on this project over a period of many years. He also read the manuscript and offered important suggestions on how to restructure it. In addition, good advice was provided by Ross Koppel, the (previously) anonymous Aldine reviewer. The manuscript was also read by Paula England, Paul Jargowsky, and Ernie Stromsdorfer, who provided useful comments and advice.

Next page

1234567...54

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «Human capital or cultural capital? : ethnicity and poverty groups in an urban school district»

Look at similar books to Human capital or cultural capital? : ethnicity and poverty groups in an urban school district. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.

Greg Clydesdale

Reducing Inter-generational Ethnic Poverty: Economics, Psychology and Culture

Jasmin Hristov

Blood and Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia

Nicole Gravagna

Venture Capital For Dummies

Phillip Brown

The Death of Human Capital?

George Comninel

The International After 150 Years: Labor vs Capital, Then and Now

Asafa Jalata

Cultural Capital and Prospects for Democracy in Botswana and Ethiopia

Jo Anne Schneider

Social Capital and Welfare Reform: Organizations, Congregations, and Communities

George Farkas

Infant Care and Motherhood in an Urban Community

Ward

Native Americans in the School System

Iceland

Race and Ethnicity in America

Deepa Narayan-Parker

Voices of the poor: poverty and social capital in Tanzania

Ismail Serageldin

Social Capital: A Multifaceted Perspective

Discussion, reviews of the book Human capital or cultural capital? : ethnicity and poverty groups in an urban school district and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.