Education and high-status occupations in the UK since the middle of the twentieth century

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Bibliography: Paterson, L., 2022. Education and high-status occupations in the UK since the middle of the twentieth century. British Journal of Sociology of Education 43, 375–396. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2022.2026763

Authors:: Lindsay Paterson

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First-page: 375

Abstract

Previous research on historical trends in the UK in social-class and sex inequality in educational attainment and in occupational opportunity is extended well into the present century by means of the UK Household Longitudinal Study, with a particular focus on variation among England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. In England, Wales and Scotland, class inequality of educational attainment declined during the transition to non-selective secondary schooling and to mass higher education. But the decline also was observed in Northern Ireland, which retained a selective system. The relationship between education and occupational destinations is then investigated for the same period of time. The use of recent data allowed this to be extended to the mature class destination even of the youngest cohort, who had experienced the stable system of comprehensive schools in the 1990s. Inequality of this opportunity also declined, but again with no particular connection to the educational reforms.

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& n England, Wales and Scotland, class inequality of educational attainment declined during the transition to non-selective secondary schooling and to mass higher education. (p. 375)
& The education systems of the four parts of the UK have provided the empirical basis of several previous investigations of educational inequality and occupational opportunity (Breen 2004; Bukodi and Goldthorpe 2019; Heath 2000; Halsey, Heath, and Ridge 1980; Paterson and Iannelli 2007a, 2007b). (p. 375)
& To investigate change over time, we group respondents into decade-long synthetic cohorts, using broadly the same structure as previous writers on this topic who used the BHPS from the year 1999, but now taking the analysis forward in time (Paterson and Iannelli 2007a). In brief, the key experiences of these cohorts are: (p. 380)