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Mapping the Social Networks of Undergraduate STEM Students.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Mapping the Social Networks of Undergraduate STEM Students./
Author:	Dilla, Adam Michael.
Description:	1 online resource (40 pages)
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 57-02.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International57-02(E).
Subject:	Social psychology. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355494075

Mapping the Social Networks of Undergraduate STEM Students.
Dilla, Adam Michael.

Mapping the Social Networks of Undergraduate STEM Students. - 1 online resource (40 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 57-02.

Thesis (M.A.)

Includes bibliographical references

Growing research suggests that a person's social network composition can importantly influence goal pursuit and goal motivation, particularly within a school setting. This paper provides a general review of the literature on social networks, focusing on the reasons why socialization from peers and families, as well as influence from teachers, is important in understanding student's major selection. I provide evidence that this influence is not identical for all students, and suggest that social network influence and socialization differences might be related to differences of representation in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) majors at the college level. Using a hierarchical mapping technique, I find that social networks of underrepresented and well-represented students are more similar than different, but underrepresented students tend to have greater familial representation. Centrality measures and interactions are also analyzed, but again there are few differences between groups. Future efforts will be focused on better understanding the potential implications of differences in family inclusion in students' networks.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355494075Subjects--Topical Terms:

554804
Social psychology.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

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