Class origin and young adults' re-enrollment.

Autor/inn/en	Jacob, Marita; Weiss, Felix
Titel	Class origin and young adults' re-enrollment.
Quelle	In: Research in social stratification and mobility, 29 (2011) 4, S. 415-426 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Zusatzinformation	Forschungsdaten, Studiendetails und Erhebungsinstrumente
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0276-5624
DOI	10.1016/j.rssm.2011.02.004
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Bildungschance; Chancengleichheit; Soziale Ungleichheit; Soziale Herkunft; Bildung; Chancengleichheit; Soziale Ungleichheit; Studium; Berufstätigkeit; Hochschule; USA; Soziale Herkunft; Berufstätigkeit; Studium; Hochschule; Status; Statusbewusstsein; USA
Abstract	This paper examines re-enrollment decisions taken by adults who have previously participated in the labor market in the US. We investigate the influence of social origin on re-enrollment and test hypotheses based on the "status reproduction" argument. We find that young adults from the lower classes re-enroll less often than those from the upper classes and that these differences can be attributed to a large extend to different ability or performance. Beyond the effects of social origin as such, we also scrutinize the effects of the child's class position relative to family status as a more direct implication of the "status reproduction" argument. Our analyses reveal that once young adults from higher status positions have reached their parents' class, re-enrollment is somewhat less likely to occur. However, this effect of the child's relative class to the parents' is rather weak. (Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2021/2