Generating social stratification : toward a new research agenda /

Generating social stratification : toward a new research agenda /

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Imprint:Boulder : WestviewPress, 1996.
Description:xv, 358 p.
Language:English
Series:Social inequality series
Subject:
Students -- United States -- Social conditions.
Academic achievement -- United States.
Social mobility -- United States.
Academic achievement.
Social mobility.
Students -- Social conditions.
United States.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2411584
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Other authors / contributors:Kerckhoff, Alan C.
ISBN:0813389674 (HC : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Part 1. Conceptualizing Careers and Stratification Processes
  • 1. Structuration and Individualization: The Life Course as a Continuous, Multilevel Process
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • 2. Social Psychological Aspects of Achievement
  • 3. Building Conceptual and Empirical Bridges Between Studies of Educational and Labor Force Careers
  • Notes
  • References
  • Part 2. Educational Contexts and Processes
  • 4. Educational Stratification and Individual Careers
  • Notes
  • References
  • 5. Educational Tracking During the Early Years: First Grade Placements and Middle School Constraints
  • Notes
  • References
  • 6. Peer Social Networks and Adolescent Career Development
  • References
  • Notes
  • Appendix A.
  • 7. School Choice and Community Segregation: Findings from Scotland
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
  • 8. Educational Processes and School Reform
  • Notes
  • References
  • Part 3. Education and Labor Force Linkages
  • References
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • 10. Education, Earnings Gain, and Earnings Loss in Loosely and Tightly Structured Labor Markets: A Comparison Between the United States and Germany
  • Notes
  • References
  • 11. Education and Credentialing Systems, Labor Market Structure and the Work of Allied Health Occupations
  • Summary
  • Notes
  • References
  • 12. Creating Capitalists: The Social Origins of Entrepreneurship in Post-Communist Poland
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
  • Part 4. Social System Contexts
  • 13. The Politics of Mobility
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • 14. Stratification and Attainment in a Large Japanese Firm
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
  • 15. Changing Contexts of Careers: Trends in Labor Market Structures and Some Implications for Labor Force Outcomes
  • References
  • About the Book and Editor

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