Educational Expansion and Social Mobility: The Scottish Case

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Iannelli, Cristina [1 ]
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[1] Univ Edinburgh, Moray House Sch Educ, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
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10.1017/S147474641000059X
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D58 [社会生活与社会问题]; C913 [社会生活与社会问题];
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For over a century, the goal of reducing class inequalities in educational attainment has been based at least in part on the belief that this would help to equalise life chances. Drawing upon the main findings of three ESRC-funded projects, this paper reviews the empirical evidence on trends in social class inequalities in educational attainment and the role of education in promoting social mobility in Scotland. The findings show that in the second half of the twentieth century, despite the increase in overall levels of attainment, class differences in educational attainment persisted. Educational policies in Scotland supported educational expansion which allowed larger numbers of working-class children to climb the social class ladder than in the past. However, these did not translate into any break with the patterns of social inequalities in the chances of entering the top-level occupations. The conclusions highlight that educational policies on their own are not powerful enough to change patterns of social mobility which are mainly driven by labour market and social class structures.
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