Self‐assessment in the early educational attainment process*
- 1 August 1979
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie
- Vol. 16 (3) , 305-319
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-618x.1979.tb01033.x
Abstract
Ce travail réexamine la nature psycho‐sociologique du modèle d'acquisition de situation dans le Wisconsin dont une analyse récente de Wilson et Portes tend à prouver qu'elle est en grande partie erronnée. Elle met particulièrement en question l'hypothèse formulée, et non prouvée, de Sewell et Compagnie que l'auto‐évaluation intervient dans les effets des résultats scolaires concernant les aspirations à une situation et les variables de l'acquisition. Basé sur un large échantillonnage d'élèves de 12e année de l'Ontario tiré d'une récente étude en profondeur, nos résultats vont à l'encontre de ceux de Wilson et Portes, réaffirmant dans leur ensemble la nature psycho‐sociologique du processus d'aqcuisition de situation et en particulier le rôle critique joué par des processus réflexifs tels que l'auto‐évaluation dans ce cadre.This paper reexamines the social‐psychological nature of the Wisconsin status attainment model which a recent analysis by Wilson and Portes purports to have largely disconfirmed. In particular, it puts to test the hypothesis formulated, but not tested, by Sewell and associates that self assessment mediates the effects of academic performance on status aspirations and attainment variables. Based on a large sample of Ontario grade 12 students drawn from a recent longitudinal study, our results contradict those of Wilson and Portes, reaffirming in general the social‐psychological nature of the status attainment process and in particular the critical role played by such reflexive processes as self‐assessment in it.Keywords
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