Educational attainment - relative or absolute - as a mediator of intergenerational class mobility in Britain

(2016) - Erzsébet Bukodi, John H. Goldthorpe

Journal: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
Link:: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0276562415000049
DOI:: 10.1016/j.rssm.2015.01.003
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Tags:: #paper #NCDS #SocialClass #Attainment
Cite Key:: [@bukodiEducationalAttainmentRelative2016]

Abstract

Notes

Education is best considered a 'positional good'; and the motivation and capacity, of parents in more advantaged class positions to help their children maintain their competitive edge in the educational system, and in turn in labour markets, underlies the resistance to change that the mobility regime displays

(positional good is one to look into)