Education and Social Mobility (Paperback)

1. Education and social mobility Phillip Brown, Diane Reay and Carol Vincent 2. Reflections on education and social mobility A.H. Halsey 3. Social mobility, a panacea for austere times: tales of emperors, frogs, and tadpoles Diane Reay 4. Education, opportunity and the prospects for social mobility Phillip Brown 5. ‘Class work’: producing privilege and social mobility in elite US secondary schools Lois Weis and Kristin Cipollone 6. Higher education, social class and the mobilisation of capitals: recognising and playing the game Ann-Marie Bathmaker, Nicola Ingram and Richard Waller 7. Social mobility and post-compulsory education: revisiting Boudon’s model of social opportunity Ron Thompson and Robin Simmons 8. The changing relationship between origins, education and destinations in the 1990s and 2000s Fiona Devine and Yaojun Li 9. Framing higher education: questions and responses in the British Social Attitudes survey, 1983?2010 Anna Mountford-Zimdars, Steven Jones, Alice Sullivan and Anthony Heath 10. Interrupted trajectories: the impact of academic failure on the social mobility of working-class students Tina Byrom and Nic Lightfoot 11. Rural students’ experiences in a Chinese elite university: capital, habitus and practices He Li 12. Cultural capital and distinction: aspirations of the ‘other’ foreign student I Lin Sin 13. Meritocracy and the Gaokao: a survey study of higher education selection and socio-economic participation in East China Ye Liu 14. Educational expansion and field of study: trends in the intergenerational transmission of educational inequality in the Netherlands Gerbert Kraaykamp, Jochem Tolsma and Maarten H.J. Wolbers 15. The role of the school curriculum in social mobility Cristina Iannelli 16. Three generations of racism: Black middle-class children and schooling Carol Vincent, Stephen Ball, Nicola Rollock and David Gillborn 17. Resettling notions of social mobility: locating refugees as ‘educable’ and ‘employable’ Jill Koyama