Childhood Social Status in Society and School: Implications for the Transition to Higher Levels of Education

Autor/inn/en	Almquist, Ylva; Modin, Bitte; Ostberg, Viveca
Titel	Childhood Social Status in Society and School: Implications for the Transition to Higher Levels of Education
Quelle	In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 31 (2010) 1, S.31-45 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-5692
Schlagwörter	Socioeconomic Status; Equal Education; Social Status; Children; Foreign Countries; Peer Acceptance; Peer Relationship; Longitudinal Studies; Educational Attainment; Academic Aspiration; Cohort Analysis; Measures (Individuals); Educational Sociology; Predictor Variables; Sweden (Stockholm) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Sozialer Status; Child; Kind; Kinder; Ausland; Peer-Beziehungen; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Kohortenanalyse; Messdaten; Bildungssoziologie; Erziehungssoziologie; Prädiktor
Abstract	While research into educational inequalities emphasizes childhood socio-economic status, this study adds another dimension of status into the analysis; namely, the child's own social position among its peers. The aim was to examine whether socio-economic status and peer status can both be linked to educational transitions and, if so, whether they constitute overlapping paths. In a second step of analyses, the relationship between peer status and adult unemployment was investigated. Data were derived from a longitudinal study using a 1953 cohort born in Stockholm, Sweden. Our results suggest that children with higher socio-economic status and children with higher peer status are consistently more likely than their lower status peers to proceed to the next level of education, and that the effects of socio-economic status and peer status hardly overlapped at all. Furthermore, educational differences by peer status seem to involve consequences for the studied subjects' contemporary labour market opportunities. (Contains 4 tables.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 325 Chestnut Street Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Fax: 215-625-2940; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10