Getting Started: Transition to Adulthood in Great Britain

Politics & Social Sciences

Kerckhoff, Alan C.

Social Sciences

Routledge

This book provides evidence of the significance of a society's structure and normative definitions in giving shape to one part of the life course, examining closely a major period of life course transition, the move from adolescence to adulthood in Great Britain.

Getting Started: Transition To Adulthood In Great Britain

In this book some of the leading stratification scholars in the U.S. present empirical and theoretical essays about the institutional contexts that shape careers. Building on recent advances in theory, data, and analytic technique, the essays in this volume work toward the goal of identifying and assessing the processes by which a birth cohort is d

Generating Social Stratification: Toward A New Research Agenda

Diverging Pathways follows the careers of a British birth cohort into early adulthood, presenting a detailed picture of the family backgrounds and the school and early labor force achievements of the cohort. The study portrays how the social arrangements of society's institutions deflect people's achievement patterns. Different kinds of schools, ability groups within schools, and industrial and firm differences lead comparable individuals to achieve at very different levels in society, and the book shows that the cumulative effects of being placed in advantaged or disadvantaged locations make their achievements highly divergent in adulthood. The study reports on major career differences between men and women and describes how the interface between post-secondary education and the labor force alters some of the outcomes of elementary and secondary schooling.

Diverging Pathways: Social Structure and Career Deflections

Cambridge University Press

Diverging Pathways follows the careers of a British birth cohort into early adulthood, presenting a detailed picture of the family backgrounds and the school and early labor force achievements of the cohort. The study portrays how the social arrangements of society's institutions deflect people's achievement patterns. Different kinds of schools, ability groups within schools, and industrial and firm differences lead comparable individuals to achieve at very different levels in society, and the book shows that the cumulative effects of being placed in advantaged or disadvantaged locations make their achievements highly divergent in adulthood. The study reports on major career differences between men and women and describes how the interface between post-secondary education and the labor force alters some of the outcomes of elementary and secondary schooling.

In this book some of the leading stratification scholars in the U.S. present empirical and theoretical essays about the institutional contexts that shape careers. Building on recent advances in theory, data, and analytic technique, the essays in this volume work toward the goal of identifying and assessing the processes by which a birth cohort is distributed in the stratification system, given their positions of origin in that system. Alan Kerckhoff's introduction situates the studies in this volume within the context of previous stratification research over several generations, making the book an invaluable resource for scholars and graduate students.

Generating Social Stratification: Toward A New Research Agenda (Social Inequality)

Generating Social Stratification: Toward A New Research Agenda (WESTVIEW SERIES ON SOCIAL INEQUALITY)

Westview Press

Research in Sociology of Education and Socialization: A Research Annual. Vol 2, 1981. Research on Educational Organizations. Ed by Alan C. Kerckhoff

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Jai Pr

Research in Sociology of Education and Socialization: International Perspectives on Education: 6

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Getting Started: Transition to Adulthood in Great Britain

Getting Started: Transition To Adulthood In Great Britain

Generating Social Stratification: Toward A New Research Agenda

Diverging Pathways: Social Structure and Career Deflections

Diverging Pathways: Social Structure and Career Deflections

Generating Social Stratification: Toward A New Research Agenda (Social Inequality)

Generating Social Stratification: Toward A New Research Agenda (WESTVIEW SERIES ON SOCIAL INEQUALITY)

Research in Sociology of Education and Socialization: A Research Annual. Vol 2, 1981. Research on Educational Organizations. Ed by Alan C. Kerckhoff

Research in Sociology of Education and Socialization: International Perspectives on Education: 6