Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 

TL;DR: The authors identified 19 empirical generalizations and several orienting themes from the state of the research committee at the World Congress in 2002, including individual life chances, classification and scoring of social positions, education, state and labor market processes, and family structure.

TL;DR: The authors found that children growing up in homes with many books get three years more schooling than children from bookless homes, independent of their parents' education, occupation, and class, and this holds equally in rich nations and in poor; in the past and in the present; under Communism, capitalism, and Apartheid; and most strongly in China.

TL;DR: The authors found that educational credentials were the most common criteria employers used to solicit and screen resumes, and that extracurricular activities have become credentials of social and moral character that have monetary conversion value in labor markets.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors decompose the effect of social class origin on educational choices into primary and secondary effects, and present a new and simple method that allows empirical assessment of the relative magnitudes of secondary effects.