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The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.

James Samuel Coleman

Industrial society has made of high school a social system of adolescents... set apart, in an institution of their own.

James Samuel Coleman

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.

James Samuel Coleman

Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.

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The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds.

James Samuel Coleman

Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so.

James Samuel Coleman

James Samuel Coleman

James Samuel Coleman

Born: May 12, 1926

Died: March 25, 1995 (aged 68)

Bio: James Samuel Coleman was an American sociologist, theorist, and empirical researcher, based chiefly at the University of Chicago.

Known for:

Foundations of Social Theory (1990)
Equality of Educational Opportunity (1966)
The Adolescent Society (1966)
The mathematics of collective action (1973)
The asymmetric society (1982)

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