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Diverging Pathways: Social Structure and Career Deflections - Hardcover

Kerckhoff, Alan C.

 
9780521433976: Diverging Pathways: Social Structure and Career Deflections
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521433975 ISBN 13: 9780521433976
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1993

Synopsis

Diverging Pathways follows the careers of a British birth cohort into early adulthood, presenting a detailed picture of the family backgrounds and the school and early labour force achievements of the cohort. The study portrays how the social arrangements of society's institutions deflect people's achievement patterns. Different kinds of schools, ability groups within schools, and differences between industries and firms lead comparable individuals to achieve at very different levels in society and the book shows that the cumulative effects of being placed in advantaged or disadvantaged locations make their achievements highly divergent in adulthood. The study reports on major career differences between men and women and describes how the interface between post-secondary education and the labour force alters some of the outcomes of elementary and secondary schooling.

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Review

"An exemplar of the new genre of status attainment studies which accord socialization and allocation processes coequal standing, Diverging Pathways takes social structure seriously....A brief review couldn't possibly do justice to the book's findings....[T]he overriding message of Diverging Pathways is that school and labor market structures are of great consequence and its evidence on this score seems to me quite compelling." Karl L. Alexander, Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare

"RDiverging Pathways will become a `must read' for anyone interested in the issue of ability groupings within schools, and thAimpact of such groupings on academic achievement." Kris Magnusson, The Journal of Educational Thought

Book Description

Diverging Pathways follows the careers of a British birth cohort into early adulthood, revealing how the social arrangements of society's institutions can affect achievement patterns.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
1993
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521433975
ISBN 13 
9780521433976
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
280