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From origin to destination : trends and mechanisms in social stratification research : essays in honour of Walter Müller

Title
From origin to destination : trends and mechanisms in social stratification research : essays in honour of Walter Müller / Stefani Scherer [and others], eds.
Publication
Frankfurt ; New York : Campus Verlag ; Chicago, IL : Distribution throughout the world except Germany, Austria and Switzerland by the University of Chicago Press, ©2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Müller, Walter, 1942-
  • Scherer, Stefani.
Description
323 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
"The volume presents theoretical knowledge as well as empirical evidence on questions such as intergenerational social mobility; inequalities of educational opportunity, gender and ethnicity; and the role of education in the labour market."--Jacket.
Alternative Title
Trends and mechanisms in social stratification research
Subject
  • Müller, Walter, 1942-
  • Social stratification
  • Social stratification > Research
  • Social mobility
  • Social mobility > Research
  • Social Mobility
  • social stratification
  • social mobility
  • Arbeitsmarkt
  • Bildung
  • Chancengleichheit
  • Soziale Mobilität
  • Sociale stratificatie
  • Social stratifiering
  • Social rörlighet
Note
  • "Parts of the chapters were presented at a conference to honour Walter Müller in Mannheim, January 26, 2007"--P. [7].
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction : from origin to destination / Reinhard Pollak ... [et al.] -- The persistence of persistent inequality / Yossi Shavit, Meir Yaish, Eyal Bar-Haim -- Social selection in Stockholm schools : primary and secondary effects on the transition to upper secondary education / Robert Erikson -- "Cultural capital" : some critical observations / John Goldthorpe -- Social mobility and education : a comparative analysis of period and cohort trends in Britain and Germany / Richard Breen, Ruud Luijkx -- Variations on a theme : trends in social mobility in (West) Germany for cohorts born between 1919 and 1971 / Karl Ulrich Mayer, Silke Aisenbrey -- Self-employment and social stratification / Richard Arum -- Youth unemployment in the enlarged European Union / Irena Kogan, Marge Unt, Ellu Saar -- Disentangling recent trends of the second generation's structural assimilation in Germany / Frank Kalter, Nadia Granato, Cornelia Kristen -- Lessons from social mobility research : could the index discussion in occupational sex segregation benefit? / Johann Handl, Stephanie Steinmetz -- Linked lives in modern societies : the impact on social inequality of increasing educational homogamy and the shift towards dual-earner couples / Hans-Peter Blossfeld -- Containers, Europeanisation and individualization : empirical implications of general descriptions of society / Ulrich Kohler.
ISBN
  • 9783593384115
  • 3593384116
LCCN
9783593384115
OCLC
  • ocn150414815
  • 150414815
  • SCSB-8803090
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library