Social Origins of Officers in the Indian and British Home Army: 1758-1962

Razzell, Peter

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“…In British sociology, there is a long and rich tradition of research looking at mobility into elite occupations (eg Glass and Hall, 1954; Razzel, 1963, Halsey and Crewe, 1969; Boyd, 1973; Stanworth and Giddens, 1974; Heath, 1981). However, in recent decades, this line of enquiry has died a curious death.…”

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Breaking the ‘Class’ Ceiling? Social Mobility into Britain's Elite Occupations

Friedman

Laurison

Miles

2015

The Sociological Review

107

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In this paper we use the unusually large sample size of the Great British Class Survey to compare rates of social mobility into different elite occupations. We find a distinction between 'traditional' professions, such as law, medicine and finance, which are dominated by the children of higher managers and professionals, and technical or emerging highstatus occupations, particularly those related to IT, that appear to recruit more widely.Second, we find that even when the upwardly mobile are successful in entering elite occupations they invariably fail to accumulate the same economic, cultural and social capital as those from privileged backgrounds. While many such differences may be explained by inheritance, we also find that the mobile tend to have considerably lower incomes. Investigating this further we demonstrate that even when controlling for important variables such as schooling, education, location, age, and cultural and social capital, the upwardly mobile in eight occupations -located largely in the business sectorhave considerably lower incomes than their higher-origin colleagues. These findings underline the value of analyses of mobility into specific high-status occupations as well as illustrating how, beyond entry, the mobile often face considerable disadvantage within occupations.2

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Breaking the ‘Class’ Ceiling? Social Mobility into Britain's Elite Occupations

Friedman

Laurison

Miles

2015

The Sociological Review

107

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“…Our second set of hypotheses is concerned with unequal access to the CTP support between Officers and Soldiers. For Soldiers, military work is more likely to involve frequent operational and training deployments, which means anti-social working hours and conditions (Mansfield, 2016;Razzell, 1963). During focus groups we were told T A B L E 2 Descriptive analysis on employment transition that these tasks restrict their freedom to engage with transition resources and prepare for their Service-to-Civilian career transition.…”

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“…The exit transition experiences of Service personnel are under‐studied and under‐theorised. This is an oversight, especially given the importance of the Military's contribution to society (e.g., Mansfield, 2016; Razzell, 1963; Stone & Stone, 2015). For simplicity, we partition studies of the Service‐to‐Civilian career journey into two branches.…”

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The next mission: Inequality and service‐to‐civilian career transition outcomes among 50+ military leavers

Wen

Bamber

Flynn

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Human Res Mgmt Journal

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We examine the Service‐to‐Civilian career transition for Military leavers aged 50 and above (50+). The exit age of our sampled group means that it is more likely that they hold senior‐ranked positions across both Officer and Soldier career pathways. Despite both groups having access to similar transition opportunities and resources, we find that their work‐lives are underpinned with economic, social, and structural inequality. This inequality has substantive effects on their employment transition outcomes. Our focus group data suggest that Soldiers have unequal access to formal (e.g., Career Transition Partnership programmes) and informal (e.g., social networks) transition support resources compared to Officers. Employing a structural equation modelling approach to analyse 183 survey responses, we found that Soldiers are more likely to apply for, and subsequently take, civilian work that is below their skills level. In turn, Soldiers are significantly less satisfied with their civilian work than Officers.

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“…Research on the British Army officer corps has often been concerned with showing links between public school 2 education, commissions in high status regiments and career success (Razzell, 1963; Otley, 1973; Garnier, 1975; Macdonald, 1980; Macdonald, 1988; von Zugbach, 1988). Although empirically rigorous, the findings of these studies have been presented in relation to a rather inexplicit theory of a self‐perpetuating elite, with very little by way of explanation of how this relationship comes about.…”

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Black Mafia, Loggies and Going for the Stars: The Military Elite Revisited

MacDonald¹

2004

The Sociological Review

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The connection between a Public School education and the British Army officer corps has often been presented as an example of a self-perpetuating elite, with little by way of theoretical explanation. This paper aims to explicate these matters by reference to Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and field and to extend the empirical work of earlier studies by looking at the nature of army organization structure, the place of particular regiments within it, and the relative success of officers from different regiments in gaining promotion to general. Inter-regimental competition plays a key role in allowing the reproduction of privilege within the military, and testifies therefore to the importance of organizational structures.The shorthand conclusions of earlier studies that 'the elite is maintained' can be replaced by analysis and explanation, which suggest that the alignment of public school habitus and military field will ensure that (other things being equal) this state of affairs will be slow to change. The property assets of the upper middle class allow their offspring to acquire at public school the cultural assets that will enable them to succeed in a military career. This in turn give access to organizational assets and economic rewards that will enable them to provide the next generation with their cultural assets.

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Social Origins of Officers in the Indian and British Home Army: 1758-1962

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Breaking the ‘Class’ Ceiling? Social Mobility into Britain's Elite Occupations

Breaking the ‘Class’ Ceiling? Social Mobility into Britain's Elite Occupations

The next mission: Inequality and service‐to‐civilian career transition outcomes among 50+ military leavers

Black Mafia, Loggies and Going for the Stars: The Military Elite Revisited

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