Cover of Friendship and Educational Choice

Friendship and Educational Choice

"Friendship and Educational Choice provides a unique insight into how young people go about making decisions about their educational options and the subtle, yet crucial, influence of friends and peers on these processes. It provides a critical introduction to current sociological debates about friendships and other informal relationships. In addition, it offers a thorough overview of recent research within the sociology of education, which has focused on the ways in which educational decisions are made.

Read more

Drawing on a two-year longitudinal study of young people between the ages of 16 and 18, it then argues that although these two areas of sociological research have, in the past, rarely been linked, focusing on both the impact of friends on educational decisions and the reciprocal influences that such decisions may exert on young people's friendships helps us to understand the significance and impact of educational choice in the wider lives of young people."—Jacket.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 240 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked Friendship and Educational Choice? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Friendship and Educational Choice. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Talk now and later Shares public policy, anthropology, social science
  2. On the Future of History Shares public policy, anthropology, social science
  3. Stories of Peoplehood Shares public policy, anthropology, social science
  4. Political culture in the reign of Elizabeth I Shares public policy, anthropology, social science

“If you want more of the same (anthropology about politics), start with these.”

  1. A Matter of Life and Death: 60 Voices Share their Wisdom
  2. Work-Life Balance in the 21st Century (The Future of Work)
  3. Women, men, and language
  4. Second Nature

“If it was the public policy that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. La cabala del cavallo Pegaseo
  2. Community Works
  3. Assimilation in American life
  4. British Low Culture: From Safari Suits to Sexploitation

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. A Critical Pedagogy for Native American Education Policy
  2. The sociological souls of Black folk
  3. Introduction to Sociology
  4. Globalizing human resource management