Context and Consex: A Cautionary Tale

作者：Robert M. Hauser · 发表于：American Journal of Sociology · 年份：1970 · DOI：10.1086/224894 · 被引用次数：306 · 研究领域：School Choice and Performance、Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics、Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

In a contextual analysis it is found that students in schools with high sex ratios have higher educational aspirations than students in schools with low sex ratios (i.e. high male-female ratios) in a population of white high-school senior in Davidson County, Tennessee. The effect of sex-ratio context persists when sex, intelligence, and father's education are controlled. The "consexual effect" is interpreted as a consequence of anticipatory socialization. The contextual interpretation is the exposed as speculative, artifactual, and substantively trivial. Covariance analysis and dummy-variable regression analysis are advocated as more suitable techniques for the measurement and interpretation of differences among groups.