Anette Fasang How Do Parents’ Social Networks Affect Their Children’s Educational Attainment?
Anette Fasang is Head of the Research Group ‘Demography and Inequality’ at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB), as well as Professor of Microsociology at Humboldt-University Berlin. Her fields of research are gender relations in the family, the welfare state, and social inequality. Between 2008 and 2011, Fasang spent time as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course, Yale University, and at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University. Fasang’s research on the family and social inequality considers social networks among parents and their advantageous or disadvantageous effects on children.
Area of Research
Social Demography, Stratification, Life Course, Family, Quantitative Methodology
since 2014
Professor for Microsociology
Humboldt University of Berlin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) (more details)
since 2011
Head of Research Group
Berlin Social Science Centre (WZB)
Demography and Inequality
2011-2014
Assistant Professor for Demography
Humboldt University of Berlin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) (more details)
Department of Social Sciences
2008-2011
Postdoctoral Associate
Yale University
Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course (CIQLE), Department of Sociology
2009
PhD in Sociology
Jacobs University Bremen
2004
Master in Sociology
Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
- Acta Sociologica
- Advances in Life Course Research
- American Sociological Review
- British Journal of Sociology
- Comparative Population Studies
- Demographic Research
- European Sociological Review
- International Journal of Comparative Sociology
- Journal for Labour Market Research
- Journal of Happiness Studies
- Journal of Urban Affairs
- Journal of the Royal Statistical Society
- Journal of Social Policy
- Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
- Oxford University Press
- Research on Aging
- Social Forces
- Social Science Research
- Sociological Forum
- Sociological Methodology
- Sociological Methods & Research
- Sociological Theory
- Soziale Welt
- Zeitschrift für Soziologie
- American Sociological Association (ASA)
- Population Association of America (PAA)
- German Sociological Association (DGS)
- ISA RC28 on Social Stratification and Mobility
- German Section on Family Sociology
Fellowships
- Board Member of the European Consortium of Sociological Research (since 2015)
- Member of the Curriculum Committee Humboldt University of Berlin (2015)
- Member of the Academic Council Humboldt University of Berlin (2015)
- Committee Member of the ECSR Best Dissertation Award (2014)
- Committee Member of the Poster Selection Committee at the Conference ‘Life Course Transitions after Separation: Stepfamilies, Lone and Non-Residential Parenthood.’ Berlin (2013)
- Member of the Faculty Council Humboldt University Berlin (2012-2014)
- Committee Member of the Clifford Clogg Award for the Best Graduate Student Paper of the ASA Methodology Section (2012)
- Member of the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences Faculty and Council (since 2011)
- Conference Funding “The Third Decade of Life”, Schloß Herrenhausen Hanover (with Heike Solga and Marlis Buchmann) from Volkswagen Foundation (2013)
- Funding for Project Group “Demography and Inequality”, WZB Berlin Social Science Center (2011)
- Grant for Six Months Research Visit from the Max-Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock (2013)
- Structured Graduate Program “Health and Welfare in the 21st Century” (with Ellen Immergut and Gabriele Metzler) from Humboldt Initiative Structured Graduate Programs (2013)
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Using survey data and combining multilevel modelling with propensity score matching the study presented in this video examines the effects of social networks among parents on their children’s educational attainment in different social environments. The existing knowledge on the influence of parents’ networks is confirmed and refined, as ANETTE FASANG explains. The networks’ effects are not exclusively positive, as often assumed, but vary with the status of the families. Closed social networks multiply social disadvantage as much as advantage.
LT Video Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10135
Social Closure and Educational Attainment
- Anette E. Fasang, William Mangino and Hannah Brückner
- Sociological Forum
- Published in 2014
