‘Membership Has Its Privileges’: Status Incentives and Categorical Inequality in Education

Prizes – formal systems that publicly allocate rewards for exemplary behavior – play an increasingly important role in a wide array of social settings, including education. In this paper, we evaluate a prize system designed to boost achievement at two high schools by assigning students color-coded I...

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Main Authors: Thurston Domina, Andrew M. Penner, Emily K. Penner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Sociological Science 2016-05-01
Series:Sociological Science
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Online Access:https://www.sociologicalscience.com/articles-v3-13-264/