Research suggests poor outcomes among children raised in disadvantaged contexts are a consequence of cultural mismatch, that is, competing practices that create conditions too weak to support positive outcomes. While useful, research is limited in its primary focus on individual social spheres and, as a result, does not yet fully account for dynamics across spheres. It also fails to explain the puzzling case of why some children from disadvantaged contexts succeed. To address this, we propose a cultural alignment framework that considers the interaction between organizational routines, cultural practices, and the habits children carry across spheres. Using the case of technological competence, we find that children’s habits can exert force and shift cultural practice to produce alignment in unexpected ways, such as opening additional learning experiences at school—but only if children fit within organizational routines, making the organization more flexible to their individual action. More broadly, the cultural alignment framework can be used to understand dynamics across social spheres, the conditions under which alignment can occur, and how these dynamics shape learning in such settings as higher education and employment.

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极客本能：在不利环境中理论化文化一致性

研究表明，在弱势环境中长大的儿童的不良结果是文化不匹配的结果，即竞争实践创造的条件太弱而无法支持积极的结果。虽然有用，但研究的主要关注点仅限于个人社会领域，因此尚未完全考虑跨领域的动态。它也无法解释为什么一些来自弱势环境的儿童会成功的令人费解的案例。为了解决这个问题，我们提出了一个文化协调框架，该框架考虑了组织惯例、文化实践和儿童跨领域的习惯之间的相互作用。使用技术能力的案例，我们发现儿童的习惯可以以意想不到的方式施加力量并改变文化实践以产生对齐，例如在学校开设额外的学习体验——但前提是孩子们适应了组织的常规，使组织对他们的个人行动更加灵活。更广泛地说，文化对齐框架可用于了解跨社会领域的动态、对齐发生的条件以及这些动态如何影响高等教育和就业等环境中的学习。