Study of High School Social Climates (The Adolescent Society)
Coleman, James S. (University of Chicago, Ill.)
Attitude to school, education expectations and leisure interests ofHigh School students in Illinois as well as their parents. Sociometricdata on friends and family of schoolchildren and teachers. Topics: the data set contains two surveys of schoolchildren and onesurvey of pare...
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1972,
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Attitude to school, education expectations and leisure interests ofHigh School students in Illinois as well as their parents. Sociometricdata on friends and family of schoolchildren and teachers. Topics: the data set contains two surveys of schoolchildren and onesurvey of parents. The schoolchildren were asked among other things:school situation; school activities; judgement on the school,classmates and teachers; leisure activities; social contacts;friendships; preferred types of music and performers; fashion style inthe reference group; consumption of semi-luxury foods, tobacco andalcohol; social origins; family situation; religiousness; influence ofparents on personal decisions; concepts of occupation; mobilityreadiness; interest in studies and preferred university; preferredpolitical party; automobile company; watching television. Beyond this school grades, the results of an intelligence test, andthe frequency of absence at school were recorded. Sociometric data: number of choices given and received at both timesof investigation; reference group system of the schoolchildren andmechanisms of conveying status. The schoolchildren were interviewed again about 6 months after thefirst survey (autumn) with a comparable questionnaire. The mail survey of parents was conducted by means of a comparablequestionnaire. Among other things they were asked: level of eductionalaspiration; attitude to school; school situation of children;memberships; social contacts.
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Coleman, James S.: The Adolescent Society: The Social Life of the Teenager and its Impact on Education. New York: The Free Press 1961.
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Kappelhoff, Peter: Die Bestimmung und Charakterisierung primärer Umwelten mit Hilfe soziometrischer Daten im Rahmen eines Mehrebenenmodells. Köln, Universität, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwiss. Fak., Diss., 1974.
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