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Reading behaviour from adolescence to early adulthood: A panel study of the impact of family and education on reading fiction books

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Nagel, Ineke, Verboord, Marc·2012·Acta Sociologica
DOI 10.1177/0001699312456858
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In this article we study how the frequency of book-reading – a form of legitimate culture – develops in the period from adolescence to young adulthood and how it is influenced by parents’ education, parental reading socialization climate, school and their interactions. In disentangling parental and educational effects we contribute to the cultural reproduction–cultural mobility debate. We use multi-actor panel data on three cohorts of Dutch secondary school students (and their parents) who took part in a classroom survey between the ages of 14 and 17, and who participated in at least one of the follow-up surveys two, four and six years later. We find that the amount of book-reading is more strongly associated with education than with parents’ reading socialization. The influence of parents increases slightly in the period from adolescence to young adulthood. Differences in reading behaviour between students of different educational programmes increase during secondary education, but decrease in the period after secondary schooling. The transition to tertiary education hardly affects the frequency of reading. Overall, the results are more in line with the cultural reproduction model than with the cultural mobility model.

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  • Differences in reading behavior or reading interest seem to increase during adolescence.

    “but also a time in which differences in reading behavior or reading interest seem to increase (Nagel & Verboord, 2012).”

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  • A Dutch study shows relative stability in attendance at cultural performances between the ages of 14 and 25 years, although a decline in reading for pleasure was observed between 14 and 19 years.

    “However, a Dutch study shows relative stability in attendance at cultural performances between the ages of 14 and 25 years (Nagel, 2010), although a decline in reading for pleasure was observed between 14 and 19 years (Nagel and Verboord, 2012).”

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Authors
Nagel, I., & Verboord, M.
Affiliations
  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
  • Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL)
Corresponding author
Nagel, Ineke
ORCID
Verboord, Marc
Venue
Acta Sociologica
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2012-10-31
Volume
55
Issue
4
Pages
351-365
ISSN
  • 0001-6993 (ISSN-L)
  • 1502-3869
DOI
10.1177/0001699312456858
OpenAlex
W2002655456
Cited by
27
References
1
Citations by year
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FWCI
1.97
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
  • Acta Sociologica (publishedVersion)
  • Digital Academic REpository of VU University Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) (submittedVersion)
  • VU Research Portal (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Cultural Dynamics
  • Social Sciences › Education › Literacy and Educational Practices
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
Keywords
reading books, reading behaviour, legitimate culture, cultural reproduction, cultural mobility, parental education, school influence, educational programs, transition to tertiary education, adolescence, early adulthood, high school students

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