J. S. Coleman’s scientific contributions

... With embeddedness, we refer to the sociological understanding that social integration in intermediary organizations and networks fosters compliance with dominant norms, provides information, and enables the sharing of resources. Such embeddedness can, first, be of a social kind: if parents are well-integrated in parental networks in school, the available social capital is held to avoid students' deviant behavior, promote student learning, and advance the spread of information on school matters 9,10 . Second, embeddedness can be academic; children who are highly academically motivated, have higher levels of self-efficacy, and show grit, have embodied the pro-school orientations that help their learning gains [11][12][13][14] . ...

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Inequality in pandemic effects on school track placement and the role of social and academic embeddedness