Education and Intergenerational Social Mobility in Europe and the United States
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Education and Intergenerational Social Mobility in Europe and the United States

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Education and Intergenerational Social Mobility in Europe and the United States

About this book

This volume examines the role of education in shaping rates and patterns of intergenerational social mobility among men and women during the twentieth century. Focusing on the relationship between a person's social class and the social class of his or her parents, each chapter looks at a different country—the United States, Sweden, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland. Contributors examine change in absolute and relative mobility and in education across birth cohorts born between the first decade of the twentieth century and the early 1970s. They find a striking similarity in trends across all countries, and in particular a contrast between the fortunes of people born before the 1950s, those who enjoyed increasing rates of upward mobility and a decline in the strength of the link between class origins and destinations, and later generations who experienced more downward mobility and little change in how origins and destinations are linked. This volume uncovers the factors that drove these shifts, revealing education as significant in promoting social openness. It will be an invaluable source for anyone who wants to understand the evolution of mobility and inequality in the contemporary world.

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Information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781503610163
eBook ISBN
9781503611153
Edition
1
Topic
Ciencias sociales
Subtopic
Formación empresarial

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Figures and Tables
  4. Contributors
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. CHAPTER ONE: Introduction: Social Mobility and Education in the Twentieth Century
  7. CHAPTER TWO: Methodological Preliminaries
  8. CHAPTER THREE: The Land of Opportunity? Trends in Social Mobility and Education in the United States
  9. CHAPTER FOUR: Sweden, the Middle Way? Trends and Patterns in Social Mobility and Educational Inequality
  10. CHAPTER FIVE: Intergenerational Mobility and Social Fluidity in France over Birth Cohorts and Age: The Role of Education
  11. CHAPTER SIX: Education as an Equalizing Force: How Declining Educational Inequality and Educational Expansion Have Contributed to More Social Fluidity in Germany
  12. CHAPTER SEVEN: The Swiss El Dorado? Education and Social Mobility in Twentieth-Century Switzerland
  13. CHAPTER EIGHT: The Role of Education in the Social Mobility of Dutch Cohorts, 1908–1974
  14. CHAPTER NINE: Education and Social Fluidity in Contemporary Italy: An Analysis of Cohort Trends
  15. CHAPTER TEN: Intergenerational Social Mobility in Twentieth-Century Spain: Social Fluidity without Educational Equalization?
  16. CHAPTER ELEVEN: Social Mobility in the Twentieth Century in Europe and the United States
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index