Great Equalizer or Great Selector? Reconsidering Education as a Moderator of Intergenerational Transmissions

Autor/in	Fiel, Jeremy E.
Titel	Great Equalizer or Great Selector? Reconsidering Education as a Moderator of Intergenerational Transmissions
Quelle	In: Sociology of Education, 93 (2020) 4, S.353-371 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Fiel, Jeremy E.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0038-0407
DOI	10.1177/0038040720927886
Schlagwörter	Educational Attainment; Social Mobility; Family Income; Longitudinal Studies; National Surveys; Bias; Error of Measurement; Parents; Parent Child Relationship; Dropouts; National Longitudinal Survey of Youth + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Soziale Mobilität; Familieneinkommen; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Messfehler; Eltern; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen
Abstract	A long-standing consensus among sociologists holds that educational attainment has an equalizing effect that increases mobility by moderating other avenues of intergenerational status transmission. This study argues that the evidence supporting this consensus may be distorted by two problems: measurement error in parents' socioeconomic standing and the educational system's tendency to progressively select people predisposed for mobility rather than to actually affect mobility. Analyses of family income mobility that address both of these problems in three longitudinal surveys converge on new findings. Intergenerational mobility is significantly lower among high school dropouts than among others, but there are no significant differences in mobility across higher education levels. This is consistent with compensatory advantage processes among the least educated in which individuals from advantaged backgrounds use family-based resources to compensate for their lack of human capital. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01