Higher education expansion and the secondary school curriculum in Scotland in the second half of the twentieth century

Paterson, Lindsay

doi:10.1080/03054985.2021.2002291

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“…Cristina Iannelli, Adriana Duta and colleagues have pioneered this investigation of the role of the curriculum in social mobility, and the precedent they have created encourages further work Duta et al, 2018;Iannelli, 2013;Iannelli et al, 2016. See also Paterson, 2021Paterson, , 2022. We need to develop ways of coding curricular content that goes beyond the broad classification of subjects of study: we need to code details of syllabuses and, crucially, their reception by students, and we need to do that in a way that can be used to analyse large surveys.…”

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Paterson¹

2022

Scottish Affairs

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2022

Scottish Affairs

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Following in the parents’ footsteps? Using sibling data to analyse the intergenerational transmission of social (dis)advantage in Scotland

Iannelli,

Breen,

Duta

2023

European Sociological Review

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This study provides new evidence about the extent to which individual occupational status is determined by family of origin (ascription) and by educational attainment (achievement). Using linked administrative data from the Scottish Longitudinal Study, we measure intergenerational mobility using sibling correlations and we assess the effect of siblings’ education on their occupational status by examining between- and within-sibling differences. We show that about 36 per cent of siblings’ variation in occupational status in Scotland is attributable to shared family factors. Our observed measures of family background explain about 40 per cent of the shared family effect, meaning that family-based advantages in the Scottish labour market largely arise from unmeasured factors. We also find that siblings’ educational attainment accounts for 80 per cent of the variation between families in occupational status. While this may suggest that the Scottish labour market is highly meritocratic, previous research that showed a very strong family effect on educational attainment leads us to a different interpretation, namely that social inequalities in education are the main mechanism through which inequalities between families are reproduced (and perhaps legitimated) in the Scottish labour market.

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Higher education expansion and the secondary school curriculum in Scotland in the second half of the twentieth century

Cited by 2 publications

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Education and Social Science

Education and Social Science

Following in the parents’ footsteps? Using sibling data to analyse the intergenerational transmission of social (dis)advantage in Scotland

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