Social Inequality Across the Generations

The Role of Compensation and Multiplication in Resource Accumulation

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Social Inequality Across the Generations provides an innovative perspective on social stratification studies by advancing the theoretical and empirical case for the influence of resource compensation. It examines whether resource compensation is a successful mechanism for social mobility, contrasting it against competing types of resource accumulation such as multiplication. So, this book is the first to extensively cover the role of compensation in intergenerational attainment - a new and rapidly spreading concept in stratification research. The editors bring together research on different types of resources contributing to social mobility from the nuclear family, extended family and society, including in-depth analysis of the influence of wider family members in three different contexts and specific empirical chapters covering European and US societies. The authors cover a variety of institutional systems that achieve similar results through contrasting methods, and this conceptual framework reveals which policies have the biggest effect on social mobility. The book offers original insight into intergenerational inequality and mobility for researchers and students of social stratification research and social mobility, particularly within sociology, social policy and economics.Contributors include: F. Bernardi, H.-P. Blossfeld, D. Boertien, J. Erola, M. Grätz, J. Helemäe, M. Kainu, J. Kallio, O. Kangas, E. Kilpi-Jakonen, H. Lehti, A. Minello, J. Palme, F.T. Pfeffer, I. Prix, H. Pöyliö, E. Saar, Ø.N. Wiborg

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Utgivningsdatum2017-03-31
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781786432551

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Contents:Part I: Introduction 1. Compensation and other forms of accumulation in intergenerational social inequalityJani Erola and Elina Kilpi-JakonenPart II: Intra-familial compensation2. The role of economic and cultural resources in the intergenerational transmission of education in EstoniaEllu Saar and Jelena Helemäe3. Do families display compensatory behaviour following parental separation? A study of the impact of separation on family life by social backgroundDiederik Boertien4. Parental responses to disadvantageous life events: The month of birth penalty in EnglandMichael Grätz and Fabrizio BernardiPart III: Extra-familial compensation5. How do aunts and uncles compensate for low parental education in children’s educational attainment?Hannu Lehti and Jani Erola6. Does Donald need Uncle Scrooge? Extended-family wealth and children’s educational attainment in the United States Irene Prix and Fabian Pfeffer7. Family wealth and school grades in Norway: Exploring how immediate and extended family wealth matter for children’s school performance Øyvind N. WiborgPart IV: Institutional compensation8. Can adult education compensate for early disadvantages? The role of adult education in reducing inequalities for German men and womenAlessandra Minello and Hans-Peter Blossfeld9. The multifaceted roles of the social investment state in compensating, accumulating and multiplying endowments over the life cycle Olli Kangas, Joakim Palme and Markus Kainu10. The impact of education and family policies on intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status in Europe Heta Pöyliö and Johanna KallioIndex