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22 sie 2024 · Sociologists study the social processes that produce, sustain, or reform education. This chapter features Weber’s insights on education within the context of social processes related to the modern capitalist society.
Specifically, we seek to: (i) critique the lack of elaboration of the concept within the discipline of sociology in recent years; (ii) reposition the concept of careers as a key sociological...
We ask whether patterns of racial-ethnic and socioeconomic stratification in educational attainment are amplified or attenuated when we take a longer view of educational careers. We propose a model of staged advantage to understand how educational inequalities evolve over the life course. Distinct from cumulative
30 wrz 2019 · The argument in favour of raising and maintaining high aspirations posits the idea that regardless of individual structural conditions, material circumstances, or starting location, education can provide the same opportunities for all to succeed if they only have a desire to do so.
demand from job seekers. A strict stratification approach, in the vein of Blau and Duncan (1967), emphasizes the influence of students’ background characteristics—such as class, race, gender, and parents’ education—on individuals’ job outcomes. Scholars adopting a conflict approach, most prom-inently Bowles and Gintis (1976), critique ...
2 lut 2023 · In sociology, young people's expectations have largely been approached from three perspectives: a status-attainment perspective, a rational-choice perspective, and a cultural-reproduction perspective. In the remainder of this section, I will review relevant literature in relation to these three perspectives.
28 lip 2021 · This article aims to identify the moderating effect of two dimensions of the stratification of education systems (the extent to which the first selection is based on students’ ability and the age of first selection) on social background gradient in educational attainment.
