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Alon, Sigal; Domina, Thurston; Tienda, Marta – Social Forces, 2010
We assess the intergenerational educational mobility of recent cohorts of high school graduates to consider whether Hispanics' lagging postsecondary attainment reflects a temporary lull due to immigration of low education parents or a more enduring pattern of unequal transmission of social status relative to whites. Using data from three national…
Descriptors: Social Status, Educational Attainment, High School Graduates, Longitudinal Studies
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Kerckhoff, Alan C.; Campbell, Richard T. – Social Forces, 1977
The explanation of educational ambition must be different for blacks and whites and also there are important differences by socioeconomic status among whites. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Comparative Analysis, Grade 12, Males
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Jones, F. L.; And Others – Social Forces, 1994
Applies loglinear models of social mobility to six surveys of Australian and Japanese men covering the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Finds similar patterns of association between social origins and social destinations in the two countries, no evidence of change over time in Japan, and only small evidence of increasing openness in Australia. (SV)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Status Comparison, Foreign Countries, Males