In this book Gary Marks challenges existing ideas by suggesting that it is cognitive ability rather than socioeconomic inequality that leads to long term educational outcomes, adding to the debate between the traditional quantitative methods of sociology and the more accepted qualitative methods today.
This book indicates that in western industrialized countries the basic assumption underlying the sociological perspective that social attributes, such as social class, have strong and enduring relationships with a range of sociological outcomes is unfounded. Marks argues that...
In this book Gary Marks challenges existing ideas by suggesting that it is cognitive ability rather than socioeconomic inequality that leads to lon...
Are socioeconomic inequalities in education declining? Is socioeconomic background becoming less important for people s occupational class or status? How important is cognitive ability for education and later occupational outcomes? How do countries differ in the importance of socioeconomic background for education and work?
Gary N. Marks argues that in western industrialized countries, pervasive views that socioeconomic background (or class background) has strong and unchanging relationships with education and later socioeconomic outcomes, resistant to policy and...
Are socioeconomic inequalities in education declining? Is socioeconomic background becoming less important for people s occupational class ...
