Making Sense of the Complexity of Social Identity in Relation to Achievement: A Sociological Challenge in the New Millennium.

The article presents the author's on articles about social identity and academic achievement in the 2001 issue of Sociology of Education. Although Paul W. Kingston pays some attention to the fact that the characteristics that inform high academic performance are not culture-free concepts, he dismiss...

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Publicado en:Sociology of Education Vol. 74; no. 4; pp. 159 - 169
Autor principal: O'Connor, Carla
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. 2001 Extra Issue
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