Inequality, School Segregation, and the Political Development of American Youth

研究人员已经充分证明，父母的影响、邻里因素和学校的经济和种族背景分别对学生的社会经济生活机会继续产生重要影响，但缺乏对这些因素的政治后果的研究。这项初学者奖涉及一项初步研究，旨在考察父母、邻居和学校对黑人和白人青年的政治、种族取向和政策倾向的影响。目前的项目包括加强理论框架，构建针对高三学生及其家长的邮寄调查问卷。将调查发送给3000名潜在受访者及其父母，并分析调查结果。

Researchers have amply demonstrated that parental influences, neighborhood factors and the economic-cum-racial context of schools, respectively, continue to have important influences on the socio-economic life chances of students, but there is a dearth of research on the political consequences of these factors. This Award for Beginning Academics involves a pilot study to examine the impact of parental, neighborhood and school influences on the political as well as racial orientations and policy dispositions of black and white youths. The current project involves strengthening the theoretical framework, constructing a mail survey questionnaire for high school seniors and their parents. sending the survey to 3,000 potential respondents and their parents, and, analyzing the findings of the survey.