Author: Michael R. Olneck
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Author: William H. Sewell
Publisher: New York : Academic Press, 1974 [i.e. 1975]
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Monograph on a survey of occupational success and wages of school leavers and university graduates in the USA - covers socioeconomic and psychological aspects of social mobility, etc., and examines social status and social stratification of graduates from wisconsin high schools for a 10-year period. References and statistical tables.

Author: Michael R. Olneck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Author: Orley Ashenfelter
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 9780444501899
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 800

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A guide to the continually evolving field of labour economics.

Author: Fabrizio Bernardi
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1785360450
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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Questioning the assumption that education is the ‘great social equalizer’, this book takes a comparative approach to the social origin–education–destination triangle by examining advantage in 14 different countries, including case studies from Europe, Israel, the USA, Russia and Japan. Contributions from leading experts examine the relation between family background, education and occupational achievement over time and across educational levels, focusing on the relationship between individuals’ social origins and their income and occupational outcomes. Providing new theoretical insights, this book eloquently analyzes a variety of barriers to social mobility. Using concepts of compensatory and boosting advantage to explain the intergenerational transmission of social inequality, it refutes the notion of contemporary societies as education-based and meritocratic, showing that in most of the countries studied there is no sign of decreasing intergenerational association, despite the expansion of education. With its multitude of pertinent case studies, Education, Occupation and Social Origin will be of interest to academics and students of social policy as well as those interested in social inequalities and their evolution over time. It will also be a useful reference for governmental policymakers in the wake of the current economic crisis.

Author: John Mirowsky
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351328069
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 403

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Education forms a unique dimension of social status, with qualities that make it especially important to health. It influences health in ways that are varied, present at all stages of adult life, cumulative, self-amplifying, and uniformly positive. Educational attainment marks social status at the beginning of adulthood, functioning as the main bridge between the status of one generation and the next, and also as the main avenue of upward mobility. It precedes the other acquired social statuses and substantially influences them, including occupational status, earnings, and personal and household income and wealth. Education creates desirable outcomes because it trains individuals to acquire, evaluate, and use information. It teaches individuals to tap the power of knowledge. Education develops the learned effectiveness that enables self-direction toward any and all values sought, including health. For decades American health sciences has acted as if social status had little bearing on health. The ascendance of clinical medicine within a culture of individualism probably accounts for that omission. But research on chronic diseases over the last half of the twentieth century forced science to think differently about the causes of disease. Despite the institutional and cultural forces focusing medical research on distinctive proximate causes of specific diseases, researchers were forced to look over their shoulders, back toward more distant causes of many diseases. Some fully turned their orientation toward the social status of health, looking for the origins of that cascade of disease and disability flowing daily through clinics. Why is it that people with higher socioeconomic status have better health than lower status individuals? The authors, who are well recognized for their strength in survey research on a broad national scale, draw on findings and ideas from many sciences, including demography, economics, social psychology, and the health sciences. People who are well educated feel in control of their lives, which encourages and enables a healthy lifestyle. In addition, learned effectiveness, a practical end of that education, enables them to find work that is autonomous and creative, thereby promoting good health.

Author: Ingemar Fägerlind
Publisher: Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell international
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Author: Albert Tuijnman
Publisher:
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Category : Adult education
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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A study investigated the contribution of adult education in complementing and mediating the effects of early formal schooling on life chances, job satisfaction, and general well-being. Data collected for the cohort of Swedish men followed up in the Malmo study from 1938 to 1988 were examined. The study used measures of home background, disposition to learn in the classroom, cognitive ability assessed in childhood and early adulthood, youth educational attainment, and indicators of occupational status, earned income, job satisfaction, and well-being measured during the early, middle, and late stages of life career. Measures of participation in adult education were available from 30 to 56 years of age. Path models were investigated using linear structural relations analysis. The findings indicate that: (1) youth education influences participation in adult education at all ages; (2) early participation in adult education also influences adult participation during subsequent periods; (3) relative to the diminishing effects of youth education on occupational status after 30 years of age, the effects of adult education on occupational status increase with increasing age; and (4) the direct effects of youth education on earnings increase sharply from 25 to 40 years of age and diminish gradually thereafter. The study concludes that research that has used short-term indicators of the effects of adult education has underestimated the contribution of adult education because participants have not been followed up for a sufficient length of time. In general, participants in adult education regard their lives as more worthwhile, full, rich, and interesting than those who do not take part. (Over 270 references, 43 tables, and 23 figures are included.) (Author/CML)

Author: Robert Mason Hauser
Publisher:
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Category : Brothers and sisters
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Author: Social Science Research Council (U.S.)
Publisher: New York : Seminar Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Monographic compilation of conference papers on methodology for the use of mathematical models in the social sciences - presents interdisciplinary research applications of structural equation (causal) models, and includes recent techniques of mathematical analysis and statistical analysis, etc. References and statistical tables. Conference held in madison 1970 November 12 to 16.