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Education, Social Background and Cognitive Ability - The decline of the social (Paperback)
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Education, Social Background and Cognitive Ability - The decline of the social (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Education
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Are socioeconomic inequalities in education declining? Is
socioeconomic background becoming less important for people's
occupational class or status? How important is cognitive ability
for education and later occupational outcomes? How do countries
differ in the importance of socioeconomic background for education
and work? Gary N. Marks argues that in western industrialized
countries, pervasive views that socioeconomic background (or class
background) has strong and unchanging relationships with education
and later socioeconomic outcomes, resistant to policy and social
change, are unfounded. Marks provides a large amount of evidence
from many countries showing that the influence of socioeconomic
background for education is moderate and most often declining, and
socioeconomic background has only very weak impacts on adults'
occupation and earnings after taking into account education and
cognitive ability. Furthermore, Marks shows that cognitive ability
is a more powerful influence than socioeconomic background for
educational outcomes, and that in addition to its indirect effects
through education has a direct effect on occupation and earnings.
Its effects cannot be dismissed as simply another aspect of
socioeconomic background, nor do the usual criticisms of 'cognitive
ability' apply. The declining effects for socioeconomic background
and the importance of cognitive ability support several of the
contentions of modernization theory. The book contributes to a
variety of debates within sociology: quantitative and qualitative
approaches, explanatory and non-explanatory theory, the
relationship between theory and empirical research, the role of
political ideology in research, sociology as a social science, and
sociology's contribution to knowledge about contemporary societies.
It will appeal to professionals in the fields of education and
sociology as well as postgraduate students and academics involved
in the debate.
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