Educational heterogamy and father–to–son occupational mobility in 23 industrial nations: General societal openness or compensatory strategies of reproduction?

This article presents 41 educational heterogamy tables for 23 industrial nations after World War II. Countries differ in gross heterogamy rates and relative chances of heterogamy. Evidence is found in favour of a trend towards higher gross rates of heterogamy and towards more equal jelative chances...

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Veröffentlicht in:European sociological review 1990-09, Vol.6 (2), p.125-149
Hauptverfasser: ULTEE, WOUT C., LUIJKX, RUUD
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:This article presents 41 educational heterogamy tables for 23 industrial nations after World War II. Countries differ in gross heterogamy rates and relative chances of heterogamy. Evidence is found in favour of a trend towards higher gross rates of heterogamy and towards more equal jelative chances of heterogamy. Hypotheses on effects of economic and political factors are tested. The contribution these factors make to the explanation of relative heterogamy is smaller than found in studies on intergenerational mobility. Between countries more equal relative father-to-son occupational mobility chances go together with more equal relative chances of educational heterogamy. Within countries relative mobility chances are more equal than relative chances of heterogamy. All in all Lipset and Zetterberg's notion of general societal openness is confirmed, whereas Bourdieu's notion that mobility and heterogamy are compensatory strategies of reproduction is not upheld
ISSN:0266-7215
1468-2672
DOI:10.1093/oxfordjournals.esr.a036554