Vocabulary from adolescence to middle age

Sullivan, Alice; Brown, Matthew

doi:10.14301/llcs.v6i2.310

“…Our measure of an elite university is based on the Russell Group of universities, which promotes itself as representing the leading UK universities (Boliver ) . We acknowledge the element of arbitrariness in this measure, but substantial cultural as well as economic differences between Russell Group and other university graduates are apparent (Sullivan and Brown ). We include anyone gaining a degree awarded by a polytechnic within the non‐elite degree category.…”

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The path from social origins to top jobs: social reproduction via education

Sullivan

¹

,

Parsons

²

,

Green

³

et al. 2017

British Journal of Sociology

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This paper provides a comprehensive account of the way in which cognitive and educational attainment mediate the link between social origins and elite social class destinations in mid-life. Using the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70), we assess the roles of a range of pathways through which educational advantage may lead to occupational attainment: cognitive development; private and selective secondary schools; school level qualifications; and higher education, including institution and field of study. Whereas past research has shown a residual direct effect of social origins on class destinations, we find that, once a sufficiently detailed picture of educational attainment is taken into account, education fully explains the link between social origins and top social class destinations. In contrast, the gap between men and women in achieving top social class positions is in no part accounted for by education.

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“…Our measure of an elite university is based on the Russell Group of universities, which promotes itself as representing the leading UK universities (Boliver, ) . We acknowledge the element of arbitrariness in this measure, but substantial cultural as well as economic differences between Russell Group and other university graduates are apparent (Sullivan & Brown, ). A limitation of the current article is that we do not have sufficient numbers to examine heterogeneity between universities within our broad categories (Boliver, ).…”

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Elite universities, fields of study and top salaries: Which degree will make you rich?

Sullivan

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,

Parsons

²

,

Green

³

et al. 2018

British Educational Res J

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This article assesses the chances of entering the top 5% of earners for a British cohort currently in their 40s. We assess the difference made by a university degree from an elite (Russell Group) or non-elite university, and from different undergraduate fields of study. Our study uses rich longitudinal data from the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70). This allows us to control for an unusually large range of potential confounding factors, including childhood socio-economic circumstances, cognitive scores, secondary schooling and prior qualifications. We find that large raw differences in the chances of achieving a top salary are strongly attenuated by our controls, but substantial differences between degree subject areas remain. The large gap between men and women in the chance of gaining a top salary is not explained by the type of degree achieved, and we found no evidence of gender differences in the gains from institutional prestige or particular fields of study.

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“…Our measure of an elite university is based on the Russell Group ii of universities, which promotes itself as representing the leading UK universities (Boliver 2013) iii . We acknowledge the element of arbitrariness in this measure, but substantial cultural as well as economic differences between Russell Group and other university graduates are apparent (Sullivan and Brown 2015). We include anyone gaining a degree awarded by a polytechnic within the non-elite degree category.…”

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The path from social origins to top jobs: social reproduction via education

Sullivan¹,

Parsons²,

Green³

et al. 2017

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This paper provides a comprehensive account of the way in which cognitive and educational attainment mediate the link between social origins and elite social class destinations in mid-life. Using the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70), we assess the roles of a range of pathways through which educational advantage may lead to occupational attainment: cognitive development; private and selective secondary schools; school level qualifications; and higher education, including institution and field of study. Whereas past research has shown a residual direct effect of social origins on class destinations, we find that, once a sufficiently detailed picture of educational attainment is taken into account, education fully explains the link between social origins and top social class destinations. In contrast, the gap between men and women in achieving top social class positions is in no part accounted for by education.

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Vocabulary from adolescence to middle age

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The path from social origins to top jobs: social reproduction via education

The path from social origins to top jobs: social reproduction via education

Elite universities, fields of study and top salaries: Which degree will make you rich?

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