Social Mobility and Education in Britain

Bukodi, Erzsébet; Goldthorpe, John H.

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“…Our main finding of rising opportunity plus rising inequality gives substantive evidence for popular and media observations about the rigidification of the social structure in China, but it is at odds with mainstream findings on social mobility in Western (including former socialist) countries. Goldthorpe (1987), Erikson and Goldthorpe (1992), Mills (2004, 2008), Goldthorpe and Jackson (2007), and Bukodi and Goldthorpe (2019) are the best exemplars of the thesis of 'constant association' in class mobility, a thesis explained in terms of rational action theory (Goldthorpe 2007) or loss aversion theory (Kahneman 2011). Breen et al (2009Breen et al ( , 2010 and Li and Heath (2016) show signs of optimism in terms of educational and class attainment, that is, a somewhat weakening association between origin and destination.…”

Section: Further Interrogation Of Processes Of Class Mobilitymentioning

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Social mobility in China: A case study of quantitative sociological approach to social mobility research in the Global South

Li¹

2020

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Social mobility in China: A case study of quantitative sociological approach to social mobility research in the Global South

Li¹

2020

WIDER Working Paper

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“…Parental sociocultural and specifically educational resources are correlated with economic resources, but only moderately so. And in empirical studies of children's educational attainment, different parental resources prove to have independent, and in turn cumulative, effects -with those of parental income being in no way predominant (Jaeger, 2007;Buis, 2013;Bukodi, Erikson and Goldthorpe, 2014;Bukodi and Goldthorpe, 2018).…”

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“…The main argument for studying mobility on the basis of class rather than of income is that, because class can be shown to capture income security, income stability and income prospects as well as current income level (Bukodi and Goldthorpe, 2018), class mobility more fully reflects the extent to which economic advantage and disadvantage are intergenerationally transmitted. And there is confirmatory evidence in this regard in that the intergenerational association between individuals' class positions appears generally stronger than that between their income levels (Goldthorpe, 2013;Erikson, 2016).…”

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Social Inequality and Social Mobility: Is there an Inverse Relation?

Bukodi¹,

Goldthorpe²

2018

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While accepting that an inverse relation of some kind exists between inequality and mobility, we begin by reviewing criticisms of recent attempts by economists to express this relation in terms of income inequality and mobility – the ‘Great Gatsby Curve’. This appears to be neither empirically secure nor theoretically well-grounded. Using a newly constructed European dataset, we then aim to show that if mobility is treated in terms of social class, rather than income, an inverse relation with social inequality can be suggested that is more complex but that has a stronger empirical and a more coherent theoretical basis. Our results indicate that European countries are best seen not as displaying entirely continuous variation in their relative rates of class mobility, but rather as falling into a number of comparatively high and low fluidity groups. We offer an interpretation of these results that starts out from the proposition that within societies with a capitalist market economy, a nuclear family system and a liberal democratic polity, some limit exists to the extent to which relative mobility rates can be brought towards equality. Variation in such rates can then be understood in terms of how close nations are to this limit, and whether they are moving towards or receding from it, but with different forms of inequality impacting on their fluidity trajectories in differing ways.

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“…These findings then bring into focus the question of what role is played by education in social mobility (see Bukodi and Goldthorpe 2018a). Education may mediate lack of mobility, when individuals from different class origins have different distributions of educationoperationalised as their highest level of educational qualification -and education in turn affects their chances of reaching different classes of destination (see Figure 1).…”

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Mediation analysis for associations of categorical variables: The role of education in social class mobility in Britain

Kuha¹,

Bukodi²,

Goldthorpe³

2019

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We analyse levels and trends of intergenerational social class mobility among three post-war birth cohorts in Britain, and examine how much of the observed mobility or immobility among them could be accounted for by existing differences in educational attainment between people from different class backgrounds. We propose for this purpose a method which quantifies associations between categorical variables when we compare groups which differ only in the distribution of a mediating variable such as education. This is analogous to estimation of indirect effects in causal mediation analysis, but is here developed to define and estimate population associations of variables. We propose estimators for these associations, which depend only on fitted values from models for the mediator and outcome variables, and give variance estimators for them. The results of the analysis show that the part that differences in education play in intergenerational class mobility is by no means so dominant as has been supposed, and that while it varies with gender and with particular mobility transitions, it shows no tendency to increase over time.

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Social Mobility and Education in Britain

Cited by 84 publications

References 91 publications

Social mobility in China: A case study of quantitative sociological approach to social mobility research in the Global South

Social mobility in China: A case study of quantitative sociological approach to social mobility research in the Global South

Social Inequality and Social Mobility: Is there an Inverse Relation?

Mediation analysis for associations of categorical variables: The role of education in social class mobility in Britain

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