Education and Social Mobility: New Analytical Approaches

Richard Breen; Kristian Bernt Karlson

doi:10.1093/esr/jct025

Education and Social Mobility: New Analytical Approaches

Bidragets oversatte titel: Uddannelse og social mobilitet: Nye metodiske tilgange

Richard Breen, Kristian Bernt Karlson

Sociologisk Institut

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Abstract

This paper develops tools for measuring the role of education in intergenerational social class mobility. Sociologists have long sought a method of decomposing the log odds ratios involving class origins and destinations into a direct part and an indirect part mediated by education. Drawing on recent work we first present such method and, secondly, suggest ways in which researchers might summarize the mediating role played by education. We apply these methods to examine whether or not education has come to play an increasing role in intergenerational social class mobility in Britain during the 20th century. Our results suggest that the mediating role of education did not change across the 20th century: roughly half of the association between class origins and destinations is mediated via educational attainment.

Bidragets oversatte titel	Uddannelse og social mobilitet: Nye metodiske tilgange
Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	European Sociological Review
Vol/bind	30
Udgave nummer	1
Sider (fra-til)	107-118
Antal sider	12
ISSN	0266-7215
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jct025
Status	Udgivet - feb. 2014

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