職業系中等学歴の社会的位置づけの変遷-SSM調査データの40歳時職に着目して-  [in Japanese] A Study on the Transition and the Social Position of Secondary School Leavers in Japan: According to Jobs at the Age of 40 in SSM Surveys  [in Japanese]

In the study of school history, one of the main issues is still the question of what position secondary school education occupied and how it has changed in Japan. In this paper, we consider secondary school leavers from the end of the last century to the middle of the 1970's. We determine those issues to use birth cohorts and some of the indexes that are known in the study of social mobility. We categorize people who leave after completion of secondary education into four courses of study (common, industrial, commercial, and other vocational secondary schools). We also uses indexes such as their fathers' jobs, their first jobs, and their jobs at forty years old. To describe those positions, we use the data file of Social Stratification and Mobility Survey (SSM) in 1965, 1985, and 1995. Those indexes indicate the changes of the position of the secondary education in Japan. The main results are as follows: (1) With regard to their fathers' jobs, the ratio of blue-collar workers has increased. (2) With regard to their first jobs, relationships such those between common high school and lower white-collar or blue-collar worker, between commercial high school and lower white-collar, and between industrial high school and blue-collar worker have remained stable. (3) It is also clarified that the ratio of blue-collar workers at their first jobs, has increased. (4) We compared their first jobs and their jobs at forty years old. We see that there are some chances of moving from lower prestige jobs to higher prestige from the beginning of the period to end of the period.