Generating social stratification : toward a new research agenda / edited by Alan C. Kerckhoff.

Other author Kerckhoff, Alan C.
Format Book
Publication InfoBoulder, Colo. : WestviewPress, 1996.
Descriptionxv, 358 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subjects

SeriesSocial inequality series
Social inequality series. ^A249420
Contents Structuration and individualization : the life course as a continuous, multilevel process / Angela M. O'Rand -- Social psychological aspects of achievement / Jeylan T. Mortimer -- Building conceptual and empirical bridges between studies of educational and labor force careers / Alan C. Kerchoff -- Educational stratification and individual careers / Adam Gamoran -- Educational tracking during the early years : first grade placements and middle school constraints / Karl L. Alexander and Doris R. Entwistle -- Peer social networks and adolescent career development / Charles E. Bidwell, and Stephen Plank, Chandra Muller --
Contents School choice and community segregation : findings from Scotland / J. Douglas Willms -- Educational processes and school reform / Maureen T. Hallinan -- Educational credentials and the labor market : an inter-industry comparison / W. P. Bridges -- Education, earnings gain, and earnings loss in loosely and tightly structured labor markets : a comparison between the United States and Germany / Thomas A, DiPrete and Patricia A. McManus -- Education and credentialing systems, labor market structure and the work of allied health occupations / Robert Althauser and Toby Appel --
Contents Creating capitalists : the social origins of entrepreneurship in post-communist Poland / Barbara Heyns -- Politics of mobility / Michael Hout -- Stratification and attainment in a large Japanese firm / Seymour Spilerman and Hiroshi Ishida -- Changing contexts of careers : trends in labor market structures and some implications for labor force outcomes / Arne L. Kalleberg.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 95045691
ISBN0813389674 (HC : alk. paper)