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Record W1816782995 · doi:10.11575/ajer.v60i1.55858

Gendered Habitus and Gender Differences in Academic Achievement

2014· article· en· W1816782995 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity of Calgary · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSocial and Cultural Dynamics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Manitoba
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHabitusPsychologySocializationAcademic achievementSocioeconomic statusConstruct (python library)Developmental psychologyDispositionMultilevel modelSocial psychologyCultural capitalSociologySocial science

Abstract

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Bourdieu’s theory of cultural and social reproduction posits that students’ habitus—learned behavioural and perceptual dispositions rooted in family upbringing—is a formative influence on how they react to their educational environments, affecting academic practices and academic achievement. Although originally conceived as a “class” variant construct, it has been argued subsequently that habitus is also conditioned by gender socialization, and so may also be characterized by significant gender differences. Working with multilevel Canadian data from the linked PISA-YITS surveys, this study investigates gender differences in a Bourdieu derived “structure-disposition-practice” model of academic achievement. For the most part gender differences in the model are modest, but several significant differences are evident: the boys outscore the girls in math and science while the girls excel in reading, students’ socioeconomic stats (SES) has a relatively stronger effect on the girls’ academic achievement than on the boys’ achievement, while students’ habitus affects the boys’ academic achievement more strongly than the girls’ achievement. Finally, the average SES of the schools’ students attend affects both the boys’ and the girls’ academic achievement, but this effect is stronger for the boys, and the effect of the boys’ habitus on their academic achievement diminishes slightly as the average SES of the schools they attend increases; no such contextual interaction was evident for the girls. Overall, the results suggest that habitus and the “structure-disposition-practice” model may still offer a worthwhile contribution to our understanding of gender differences in educational and occupational outcomes, and indeed, merit further empirical investigation. Selon la théorie de Bourdieu sur la reproduction culturelle et sociale, l’habitus des élèves – leurs dispositions comportementales et perceptuelles apprises et ancrées dans leur éducation familiale – constitue une influence formative sur leur réaction à leurs milieux éducationnels, ce qui affecte leur rendement et leurs pratiques académiques. Quoiqu’à l’origine, l’habitus ait été conçu comme un concept qui variait en fonction de la classe sociale, on a établi depuis qu’il est également déterminé par la socialisation liée au sexe et qu’il peut donc se caractérisé par des différences significatives entre les sexes. Puisant dans des données canadiennes à plusieurs niveaux provenant de l’Enquête auprès des jeunes en transition (EJET) et du Programme international pour le suivi des acquis des élèves (PISA), cette étude porte sur les différences entre les sexes dans un modèle de rendement académique « structure-disposition-pratique » dérivé de Bourdieu. De façon générale, les différences entre les sexes sont modestes, mais plusieurs différences significatives se sont toutefois manifestées : le rendement des garçons en mathématiques et en sciences est supérieur à celui des filles; les filles excellent en lecture; le statut socioéconomique (SSE) des élèves a plus d’impact sur le rendement académique des filles que des garçons; et l’habitus des élèves affecte davantage le rendement académique des garçons que celui des filles. Le SSE moyen des élèves de l’école affecte le rendement académique des garçons et des filles, mais l’impact est plus fort chez les garçons. L’effet de l’habitus des garçons sur leur rendement académique diminue un peu avec l’augmentation du SSE moyen des élèves de leur école; cette interaction contextuelle n’a pas été notée chez les filles. Globalement, les résultats portent à croire que l’habitus et le modèle « structure-disposition-pratique » peuvent continuer à enrichir nos connaissances des différences entre les sexes quant au rendement éducatif et professionnel et qu’ils méritent être l’objet de d’autres études empiriques.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.348
Threshold uncertainty score0.499

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.036
GPT teacher head0.248
Teacher spread0.212 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it