“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 of human capital.”

About James S. Coleman

Sociologist • American

James Samuel Coleman was an influential American sociologist and a leading figure in the field of sociology of education. He is best known for his landmark 1966 study on educational equality, commonly referred to as the...