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Decomposing ‘Social Origins’: The Effects of Parents’ Class, Status, and Education on the Educational Attainment of Their Children
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This article is published in European Sociological Review.The article was published on 2013-10-01. It has received 270 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Educational attainment & Class (computer programming).read more
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Parental education, class and income over early life course and children's achievement
TL;DR: The authors used three-level random effects linear regression models and decompose family-level variance of siblings' ISEI by each measure of parental status and found that the largest proportion of children's outcomes explained by these parental measures is shared and cannot be decomposed into independent effects.
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Income Inequality, Intergenerational Mobility, and the Great Gatsby Curve: Is Education the Key?
John Jerrim,Lindsey Macmillan +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that educational attainment is an important driver of the relationship between intergenerational mobility and income inequality, and that unequal access to financial resources plays a central role in the inter-generational transmission of advantage.
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The role of education in intergenerational social mobility: Problems from empirical research in sociology and some theoretical pointers from economics:
TL;DR: In this paper, a micro-level theory for intergenerational social mobility and its mediation via education has been provided by the functionalist theory of industrial and post-industrial society.
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The effects of social origins and cognitive ability on educational attainment: Evidence from Britain and Sweden
TL;DR: In previous work as mentioned in this paper, we have shown that parental class, parental status and parental education have independent effects on individuals' educational attainment, and that cognitive ability has a declining effect on educational attainment.
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Diverse pathways in becoming an adult: The role of structure, agency and context
Ingrid Schoon,Mark Lyons-Amos +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a diverse pathways view offering a more comprehensive understanding of changing youth transitions and examines how transitions are shaped by interactions between structure and individual agency was introduced, pointing to the need of conceptualizing the role of the agent as well as that of structures and resources for a better understanding of the processes underlying the selection into different pathways.
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The Constant Flux: A Study of Class Mobility in Industrial Societies
TL;DR: A study of social mobility within the developing class structures of modern industrial societies based on a unique data-set constructed by John Goldthorpe and Robert Erikson is presented in this paper.
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Persistent inequality : changing educational attainment in thirteen countries
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the effect of family on educational attainment in the Netherlands and the educational stratification of the Federal Republic of Germany family and school continuation decisions in the Dutch Netherlands.
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Intergenerational Class Mobility in Three Western European Societies: England, France and Sweden
TL;DR: The starting point of almost all recent discussions of comparative (i.e. cross-national) social mobility rates has been the thesis advanced by Lipset and Zetterberg in 1959 that 'the overall pattern of social mobility appears to be much the same in the industrial societies of various Western countries' as mentioned in this paper.
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Interaction terms in nonlinear models
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the motivation for including interaction terms in multivariate analyses and explain how the straightforward interpretation of interaction term in linear models changes in nonlinear models, using graphs and equations.
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Social Class of Men, Women and Families
TL;DR: In this paper, a way for ascribing a class position to families, and thereby to family members, is developed, which utilizes the work positions of both spouses and is based on an order of dominance, where occupati...
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