ARE FACTORS OF SOCIAL CAPITAL ABLE TO MODIFY SOCIAL REPRODUCTION EFFECTS?
ARE FACTORS OF SOCIAL CAPITAL ABLE TO MODIFY SOCIAL REPRODUCTION EFFECTS?

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study is to reveal the explanatory capacity of social capital theory in connection with the variations in students’ academic achievements in relation to individual and context-level religious variables. Therefore, the article focuses on the structures and contents of students` relationships in the school in the context of comparison of sources of variation of educational accomplishments of upper secondary Hungarian students living in Hungary, Romania and Ukraine and enrolled in denominational and non-denominational schools. Using multilevel analysis we compare several indicators of connectedness measured at individual and school level in order to find the variables which are mostly able to alter the well-known and powerful mechanisms of social reproduction. The results show that students' religious networks as well as the density of these networks within the school have the quality of improving academic achievements.

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