The Effect of Parents' Fundamentalism on Children's Educational Attainment: Examining Differences by Gender and Children's Funda

Citation:

Sherkat, Darren, and Alfred Darnell. 1999. “The Effect of Parents' Fundamentalism on Children's Educational Attainment: Examining Differences by Gender and Children's Funda.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 38 (1): 23-35. Copy at http://www.tinyurl.com/y5856swl
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Date Published:

Jan 1, 1999

Abstract:

New light has recently been shed on the influence of fundamentalist Protestant orientations on educational attainment; such reexamination has revived debates over the material consequences of culture. In this paper, Darren Sherkat and Alfred Darnell consider the effect of parents' fundamentalist orientation on their childrens' educational attainment. Using data from the Youth Parent Socialization Panel Study, Sherket and Darnell divide the sample to show how the influence of parents' fundamentalism varies by gener of the child and by the youth's fundamentalism. They find that fundamentalist parents hinder the educational attainment of their nonfundamentalist children, and also that such parents are more supportive of male fundamentalist children's education that are non–fundamentalist parents.

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