Education and Intergenerational Social Mobility in Europe and the United States / Richard Breen, Walter Müller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Breen, Richard, Editor.

Müller, Walter, Editor.

Series:

Studies in social inequality.

Stanford scholarship online.

Studies in Social Inequality

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational mobility--Europe--History--20th century.

Educational mobility.

Educational mobility--United States--History--20th century.

Social mobility--Europe--History--20th century.

Social mobility.

Social mobility--United States--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 pages)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This volume examines the role of education in shaping rates and patterns of intergenerational social mobility among men and women during the twentieth century. Focusing on the relationship between a person's social class and the social class of his or her parents, each chapter looks at a different country—the United States, Sweden, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland. Contributors examine change in absolute and relative mobility and in education across birth cohorts born between the first decade of the twentieth century and the early 1970s. They find a striking similarity in trends across all countries, and in particular a contrast between the fortunes of people born before the 1950s, those who enjoyed increasing rates of upward mobility and a decline in the strength of the link between class origins and destinations, and later generations who experienced more downward mobility and little change in how origins and destinations are linked. This volume uncovers the factors that drove these shifts, revealing education as significant in promoting social openness. It will be an invaluable source for anyone who wants to understand the evolution of mobility and inequality in the contemporary world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures and Tables

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Chapter One. Introduction Social Mobility and Education in the Twentieth Century

Chapter Two. Methodological Preliminaries

Chapter Three. The Land of Opportunity? Trends in Social Mobility and Education in the United States

Chapter Four. Sweden, the Middle Way? Trends and Patterns in Social Mobility and Educational Inequality

Chapter Five. Intergenerational Mobility and Social Fluidity in France over Birth Cohorts and Across Age: The Role of Education

Chapter Six. Education as an Equalizing Force: How Declining Educational Inequality and Educational Expansion Have Contributed to More Social Fluidity in Germany

Chapter Seven. The Swiss El Dorado? Education and Social Mobility in Twentieth-Century Switzerland

Chapter Eight. The Role of Education in the Social Mobility of Dutch Cohorts, 1908–74

Chapter Nine. Education and Social Fluidity in Contemporary Italy: An Analysis of Cohort Trends

Chapter Ten. Intergenerational Social Mobility in Twentieth-Century Spain: Social Fluidity without Educational Equalization?

Chapter Eleven. Social Mobility in the Twentieth Century in Europe and the United States

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9781503611153

1503611159

OCLC:

1100426231