Education, social background and cognitive ability. The decline of the social. 1. publ.

Autor/in	Marks, Gary N.
Titel	Education, social background and cognitive ability. The decline of the social. 1. publ.
Quelle	London u.a.: Routledge (2014), XII, 292 S.Verfügbarkeit
Reihe	Routledge research in education. 103
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	1-138-92322-2; 978-1-138-92322-5
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungserfolg; Soziale Ungleichheit; Kognitive Kompetenz; Reproduktion; Soziale Herkunft; Gesellschaftssystem; Sozioökonomische Lage; Berufserfolg; Einflussfaktor; Modernisierung; Nordamerika; Westeuropa
Abstract	The author argues that in western industrialized countries, pervasive views that socioeconomic background (or class background) has strong and unchanging relationships with education and later socioeconomic outcomes, resistant to policy and social change, are unfounded. The author provides a large amount of evidence from many countries showing that the influence of socioeconomic background for education is moderate and most often declining, and socioeconomic background has only very weak impacts on adults' occupation and earnings after taking into account education and cognitive ability. Furthermore, the author shows that cognitive ability is a more powerful influence than socioeconomic background for educational outcomes, and that in addition to its indirect effects through education has a direct effect on occupation and earnings. Its effects cannot be dismissed as simply another aspect of socioeconomic background, nor do the usual criticisms of "cognitive ability" apply. The declining effects for socioeconomic background and the importance of cognitive ability support several of the contentions of modernization theory. The book contributes to a variety of debates within sociology: quantitative and qualitative approaches, explanatory and non-explanatory theory, the relationship between theory and empirical research, the role of political ideology in research, sociology as a social science, and sociology's contribution to knowledge about contemporary societies. (Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2016/1