Familial Transmission of Educational Plans and the Academic Self-Concept

This research investigates the social reproduction of inequality by drawing on prospective longitudinal data from three generations of Youth Development Study respondents. It examines intergenerational influence on the relatively unexplored academic self-concept as well as educational plans, a critical component of the status attainment model. A structural equation model, based on 422 3-generation triads, finds evidence that the sources giving rise to the development of children’s (Generation 3) achievement orientations do not only result from parental (G2) contemporaneous influence. Prior influences implicate grandparent (G1) educational attainment and income, grandparental expectations for the G2 adolescent, the G2 academic self-concept and educational plans measured more than twenty years earlier (in G2’s adolescence), and G2 educational attainment. A familial culture emphasizing academic self-confidence and high educational expectations may be an important component of “family capital” that supports educational attainment and contributes to the maintenance of social class position in each successive generation

Hybrid core@soft shell particles as adhesive elementary building blocks for collaidal crystals

Hybrid materials have been developed through the synthesis of colloidal silica surrounded by elastomer polymer brushes. These core@shell materials have been achieved by the use of "nitroxide-mediated polymerization" (NMP) associated with a "grafting from" method. The living and controlled characteristics of the polymerization allow TEM observations of well-monodisperse core@shell nanohybrids. We present herein the synthetic process to create homogeneous smoothness particles surface associated with a strong adhesive property. The brush thickness is tuned in order to compare with molecular dynamic equations through the tailoring of the grafting density and the molecular weight. Finally, these particles were used as elementary adhesive building blocks and self-assembled by a dip-coating process to form a monolayered material. Its diffraction under light is described on a large-scale material as well as the elastomeric polymer brushes layer influence