Enlightenment or Status Defence? Education and Social Problem Concerns from Adolescence to Midlife

Autor/inn/en	Krahn, Harvey J.; Chow, Angela; Galambos, Nancy L.; Johnson, Matthew D.
Titel	Enlightenment or Status Defence? Education and Social Problem Concerns from Adolescence to Midlife
Quelle	In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 39 (2018) 7, S.942-960 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-5692
DOI	10.1080/01425692.2018.1429893
Schlagwörter	Aging (Individuals); Young Adults; Late Adolescents; Racial Discrimination; Indigenous Populations; Gender Discrimination; Equal Opportunities (Jobs); Females; Unemployment; Pollution; Educational Attainment; Income; Socioeconomic Status; Attitudes; Social Problems; Higher Education; Age Differences; Foreign Countries; Grade 12; High School Seniors; Working Class; Middle Class; Poverty; Attitude Change; Canada (Edmonton) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Aging; Altern; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Halbstarker; Racial bias; Rassismus; Sinti und Roma; Equal opportunity; Equal opportunities; Job; Jobs; Chancengleichheit; Beruf; Weibliches Geschlecht; Arbeitslosigkeit; Schadstoffbelastung; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Einkommen; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Attitude; Einstellung; Verhalten; Social problem; Soziales Problem; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Ausland; School year 12; 12. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 12; Arbeiterklasse; Mittelschicht; Armut; Attitudinal change; Einstellungsänderung
Abstract	This paper asks whether concerns about social problems decline with age. Unconditional growth models (without covariates) revealed a decline over 25 years (age 18 to 43) in concerns about racial discrimination, treatment of Aboriginal Peoples, female job discrimination, unemployment and environmental pollution. Educational attainment was not associated with these change trajectories in conditional control models, providing no support for enlightenment or social reproduction hypotheses. Higher household income (age 43) was associated with faster declines in concerns about racial discrimination, treatment of Aboriginal Peoples and unemployment. With household income as a predictor, downward trajectories in treatment of Aboriginal Peoples, female job discrimination and environmental pollution were no longer significant, and the racial discrimination trajectory was reversed direction. These results provide compelling evidence for status defence theory. (As Provided).
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