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

Sullivan, Alice; Parsons, Samantha; Green, Francis; Wiggins, Richard D; Ploubidis, George; (2017) The path from social origins to top jobs: social reproduction via education. British Journal of Sociology 10.1111/1468-4446.12314. Green open access

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Abstract

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.

Type: Article
Title: The path from social origins to top jobs: social reproduction via education
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.12314
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12314
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1572233
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