Generating social stratification : toward a new research agenda

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Generating social stratification : toward a new research agenda

edited by Alan C. Kerckhoff

(Social inequality series)

Westview Press, 1996

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In this book some of the leading stratification scholars in the U.S. present empirical and theoretical essays about the institutional contexts that shape careers. Building on recent advances in theory, data, and analytic technique, the essays in this volume work toward the goal of identifying and assessing the processes by which a birth cohort is distributed in the stratification system, given their positions of origin in that system. Alan Kerckhoffs introduction situates the studies in this volume within the context of previous stratification research over several generations, making the book an invaluable resource for scholars and graduate students. In this book some of the leading stratification scholars in the U.S. present empirical and theoretical essays about the institutional contexts that shape careers. Building on recent advances in theory, data, and analytic technique, the essays in this volume work toward the goal of identifying and assessing the processes by which a birth cohort is distributed in the stratification system, given their positions of origin in that system. Alan Kerckhoffs introduction situates the studies in this volume within the context of previous stratification research over several generations, making the book an invaluable resource for scholars and graduate students.

Table of Contents

  • Conceptualizing Careers And Stratification Processes
  • Introduction to Part One
  • (Alan C. Kerckhoff.)
  • Structuration and Individualization: The Life Course as a Continuous, Multilevel Process
  • (Angela M. ORand.)
  • Social Psychological Aspects of Achievement
  • (Jeylan T. Mortimer.)
  • Building Conceptual and Empirical Bridges between Studies of Educational and Labor Force Careers
  • (A. C. Kerckhoff.)
  • Educational Contexts And Processes
  • Introduction to Part Two
  • (A. C. Kerckhoff.)
  • Educational Stratification and Individual Careers
  • (Adam Gamoran.)
  • Educational Tracking during the Early Years: First Grade Placements and Middle School Constraints
  • (Karl L. Alexander and Doris R. Entwisle.)
  • Peer Social Networks and Adolescent Career Development
  • (Charles E. Bidwell, Stephen Plank, and Chandra Muller.)
  • School Choice and Community Segregation: Findings from Scotland
  • (J. Douglas Willms.)
  • Educational Processes and School Reform
  • (Maureen T. Hallinan.)
  • Education And Labor Force Linkages
  • Introduction to Part Three
  • (A. C. Kerckhoff.)
  • Educational Credentials and the Labor Market: An Inter-Industry Comparison
  • (W. P. Bridges.)
  • Education, Earnings Gain, and Earnings Loss in Loosely and Tightly Structured Labor Markets: A Comparison between the United States and Germany
  • (Thomas A. DiPrete and Patricia A. McManus.)
  • Education and Credentialing Systems, Labor Market Structure and the Work of Allied Health Occupations
  • (Robert Althauser and Toby Appel.)
  • Creating Capitalists: The Social Origins of Entrepreneurship in Post-Communist Poland
  • (Barbara Heyns.)
  • Social System Contexts
  • Introduction to Part Four
  • (A. C. Kerckhoff.)
  • The Politics of Mobility
  • (Michael Hout.)
  • Stratification and Attainment in a Large Japanese Firm
  • (Seymour Spilerman and Hiroshi Ishida.)
  • Changing Contexts of Careers: Trends in Labor Market Structures and Some Implications for Labor Force Outcomes
  • (Arne L. Kalleberg.).

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