Education, occupation and social origin

Education, occupation and social origin

A comparative analysis of the transmission of socio-economic inequalities
Gabriele Ballarino - Séminaire scientifique de l'OSC - 13 janvier 2017
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 Education, occupation and social origin.
A comparative analysis of the transmission of socio-economic inequalities


Questioning the assumption that education is the ‘great social equalizer’, this study 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.

The research examines 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. It 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.

This study was published by Edward Elgar Publishing in 2016 (edited by Fabrizio Bernardi & Gabriele Ballarino).

Gabriele Ballarino

 

Gabriele Ballarino
Department of Social and Political Sciences
University of Milan

 

 

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