Abstract
M organ and Sorensen (1999, henceforward M&S) provide an interesting and creative examination of Coleman's theory of intergenerational closure. In a previous study (Carbonaro 1998), I used the same data to examine the same issues that M&S examine, and I came to different conclusions. In this comment, I discuss three main issues that shed further light on the concept and effects of intergenerational closure: (1) How does closure work at the individual and the school levels? (2) Why do M&S and I have discrepant findings? (3) Are the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS) data adequate for testing Coleman's theory, and how might better data further our knowledge on this topic?
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