Decomposing 'Social Origins': The Effects of Parents' Class, Status, and Education on the Educational Attainment of Their Children
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Abstract
Divergent findings on trends in inequalities in educational attainment associated with individuals’ social origins have led to much discussion of how far these reflect real differences by place and time or, rather, differences in research procedures. But in this latter regard, one issue has received relatively little attention: i.e. that of the conceptualization and measurement of social origins. We propose decomposing social origins into parental class, parental status, and parental education. Following this approach, we analyse data from three British birth cohort studies. We show that these three components of social origins have independent and distinctive effects on educational attainment, and ones that persist or change in differing ways across the cohorts. We also make some assessment of their combined effects. We consider the methodological implications of our findings, in particular for analyses of trends in educational inequalities, and, further, how they might result from other, independently established, changes in social stratification in Britain over the historical period covered.
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- Venue
- European Sociological Review
- Topic
- Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
- Field
- Social Sciences
- Canadian institutions
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- Funders
- Economic and Social Research CouncilCape Breton UniversityCoordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorMcKnight Foundation
- Keywords
- KingdomSociologyEducational attainmentClass (philosophy)Social classMedia studiesPolitical scienceLaw
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