Editor’s Choice: Education and social mobility
This is a double special issue in the latest edition of the British Journal of Sociology of Education, guest edited by Phillip Brown, Diane Reay & Carol Vincent. As you might expect, included are numerous studies that borrow heavily from Bourdieu, but not exclusively – the likes of Boudon also make an appearance (see Thompson and Simmons’ paper which revisits Boudon’s model of social opportunity). The subjects covered include the likes of:
- Social mobility in elite US secondary schools
- Higher education and the mobilising of capitals
- Responses to the British attitudes survey 1983-2010
- Impact of academic failure on mobility of working-class students
- Rural student experiences in a Chinese elite university
- Transmission of educational inequality in the Netherlands
- Black middle-class children, racism and schooling
- Refuges, education and social mobility
This is well worth a closer examination – I will come back to this double edition myself over the coming weeks …
