Social Influence or Selection? Peer Effects on the Development of Adolescents' Educational Expectations in Germany

Autor/inn/en	Lorenz, Georg; Boda, Zsófia; Salikutluk, Zerrin; Jansen, Malte
Titel	Social Influence or Selection? Peer Effects on the Development of Adolescents' Educational Expectations in Germany
Quelle	In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 41 (2020) 5, S.643-669 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-5692
DOI	10.1080/01425692.2020.1763163
Schlagwörter	Expectation; Peer Influence; Foreign Countries; Academic Achievement; Friendship; Social Networks; Grade 9; Secondary School Students; Socialization; Track System (Education); Ability Grouping; Social Influences; Academic Aspiration; Selection; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Expectancy; Erwartung; Ausland; Schulleistung; Freundschaft; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; Sekundarschüler; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Leistungsgruppe; Leistungsdifferenzierung; Homogene Gruppierung; Niveaugruppierung; Streaming; Sozialer Einfluss; Auslese; Deutschland
Abstract	Educational expectations are a key predictor of educational attainment. Throughout adolescence, friends increasingly function as 'significant others' and, thus, can affect the development of these expectations. Although scholars often interpret the clustering of students with similar expectations within friendship networks as the outcome of peer influence, a similarity of friends can also be a result of friendship selection processes and preselection due to ability tracking. We apply multilevel social network models to panel data of adolescents from Germany (1,992 ninth-grade students in 91 classes) to disentangle these mechanisms. Beyond selecting similar friends (homophily), we find that adolescents adapt their expectations towards the average expectations of their friends (social influence) but only in secondary-school tracks that support diverse educational paths. We conclude that peer socialization is important for the development of students' educational expectations in contexts that are sufficiently heterogeneous to allow for the emergence of distinct peer milieus. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01