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SOCIAL RESEARCH
HOW TO READ INEQUALITIES Social network as a
Formations Context of Social Representations for
Young People Laura Accornero
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INTRODUCTION How to study scholastic
preferences and inequalities of young
people? considering not only the traditional
analyses
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OBJECTIVES Reflecting on social
representations to understand inequalities the
influence of traditional factors (for instance
class of origin) seems to extract strength from a
cognitive component
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HYPOTHESES 1 Social representations as social
network resources network group
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HYPOTHESIS 2 The influence of the context in
social representations of young people Liceo
and technical school are attended by subjects of
different social classes
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HYPOTHESIS 3 Different families and different
scholastic results External factors sex, class
of origin, housewife mother and cultural capital
of father, mother and grand-parents, area, number
of brothers and sisters (model 1) Individual
action judgement after the middle school, the
type of high school, the result of the secondary
school examinations, the presence of failures or
changes of schools (added in model 2)
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METHOD Two complementary paths logistic
regressions social representations
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RESULTS housewife mother/breadwinner
father and scholastic unsuccess?
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Influence of Housewife-mother on beta standard error Exp (beta) 95 Confidence Interval 95 Confidence Interval
Attend Liceo 1995 (mod 1) -,137 ,047 ,872 ,795 ,955
Attend Liceo 1995 (mod 2) -,186 ,053 ,830 ,748 ,921
Attend Liceo 1995 F (mod 2) -,249 ,069 ,780 ,681 ,893
Attend Liceo 1995 M (mod 2) -,095 ,085 ,909 ,771 1,073
Attend Liceo 1998 (mod 1) -,103 ,051 ,902 ,816 ,997
Attend Liceo 1998 (mod 2) -,190 ,059 ,827 ,737 ,928
Attend Liceo 1998 F (mod 2) -,211 ,076 ,810 ,698 ,939
Attend Liceo 1998 M (mod 2) -,145 ,094 ,865 ,720 1,040
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Influence of Housewife-mother on beta standard error Exp (beta) 95 Confidence Interval 95 Confidence Interval
Pursuing studies 1995 (mod 1) -,154 ,038 ,857 ,796 ,923
Pursuing studies 1995 (mod 2) -,203 ,046 ,816 ,746 ,893
Pursuing studies 1995 F (mod 2) -,164 ,060 ,849 ,754 ,955
Pursuing studies 1995 M (mod 2) -,263 ,071 ,769 ,668 ,884
Pursuing studies 1998 (mod 1) -,083 ,035 ,920 ,859 ,986
Pursuing studies 1998 (mod 2) -,109 ,042 ,896 ,826 ,973
Pursuing studies 1998 F (mod 2) -,121 ,054 ,886 ,796 ,986
Pursuing studies 1998 M (mod 2) -,098 ,066 ,907 ,796 1,033
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DISCUSSION Need for achievement? Analysis of
social representations (30 texts Italian novels
and poems) father tends to develop male model
of success and the girls are considered
not-suitable for studies or an important career
mother transmits values oriented to obedience
instead of autonomy
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CONCLUSION logistic regressions and social
representations same results? housewife mother
and breadwinner father in a family especially in
the high position decreasing of need for
achievement in the children