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- Title
SCHOOLING PROCESS AND EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES IN FRANCE.
- Authors
Garnier, Maurice A.; Hout, Michael
- Abstract
The article focuses on causes of educational attainment, an issue that cannot properly be understood without considering its organizational and biographical contexts. The organizational context is established by the school's administrative organization, its curriculum structure, and its relation to the labor market. The biographical context is established by the lifetime attainment process in which education acts as a filter. Academic performance reflects the interaction of organizational and biographical determinants. Social origins indirectly affect attainment via academic factors, the attitudes of parents and teachers, and the aspirations of the students themselves. Sex effects on educational attainment in France are complex because France has both the greatest professional opportunities for females in Western Europe as well as a culture that provides many rewards for women choosing traditional, home-centered roles. Educational attainment depends on both ascription and achievement. Although the relative importance of these variables may be a function of exogenous factors such as industrialization levels, educational structure and values, institutional socialization as a complement to home socialization links educational attainment to both ascription and achievement in industrial societies.
- Subjects
FRANCE; EDUCATION; ASCRIBED status; SOCIALIZATION; INDUSTRIALIZATION; DEVELOPED countries
- Publication
Quality & Quantity, 1981, Vol 15, Issue 2, p151
- ISSN
0033-5177
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00144258