Parental education only benefits children when strong family relationships transmit it.
Evidence
It is of course true that children are strongly affected by the human capital possessed by their parents. But this human capital may be irrelevant to outcomes for children if parents are not an important part of their children’s lives, if their human capital is employed exclusively at work or elsewhere outside the home. The social capital of the family is the relations between children and parents (and, when families include other members, relationships with them as well). That is, if the human capital possessed by parents is not complemented by social capital embodied in family relations, it is irrelevant to the child’s educational growth that the parent has a great deal, or a small amount, of human capital. — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 148
Categorization
- XREF: Connects directly to the stated reading purpose — for Sciascia’s Sicily, the dense piazza ties are social capital that bypasses rather than transmits the state’s authority/human capital, an inversion of the family case here where social capital must carry human capital. — connects to: Parental human capital only benefits a child’s development when family relationships activate it. — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 148; Strong parent-child relations are required to transmit parental human capital — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 155; Family and city life confer hidden educational advantages on privileged children. (+1 more)
- DEFINE: Defines family social capital as the parent-child relationship itself, distinct from the parent’s human capital.
Related
- Strong parent-child relations are required to transmit parental human capital (similarity 0.94)
- Parental human capital only benefits a child’s development when family relationships activate it. (similarity 0.94)
- Family and city life confer hidden educational advantages on privileged children. (similarity 0.87)
- Parents low in formal schooling can still provide high social capital for children’s education (similarity 0.87)
- Children need adults’ presence and attention to access parents’ human capital (similarity 0.86)
- Family background splits into financial, human, and social capital that affect achievement differently (similarity 0.84)
- Communal social capital shapes children’s development beyond family resources. (similarity 0.82)
- Adult education levels barely affect child outcomes once social capital is held constant. (similarity 0.82)
- Adult-to-child ratio measures family social capital available for schooling. (similarity 0.80)
- A working nuclear family lacks structural social capital. (similarity 0.80)
- Community social capital substitutes for missing family social capital. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Strong parent-child relations are required to transmit parental human capital
#corroborates(0.97) — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 155 - Parental human capital only benefits a child’s development when family relationships activate it.
#corroborates(0.95) — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 148