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Class, subjective status, and turnout in Europe

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-03-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101039

Giacomo Melli

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The inequality trade-off? Employment inequalities across and within couples in the rise of dual earning

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-03-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101035

Guillaume Paugam

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What happens to bright 5-year-olds from poor backgrounds? Longitudinal evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-03-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101038

John Jerrim, Maria Palma Carvajal

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Associations of perceived social mobility with health indicators: Findings from the Chinese general social survey from 2017 to 2021

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-03-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101037

Huali Zhao , Jinhui Qiao , Xinyue Shen , Yue Dong , Yue Hu , Yingying Zhang , Fei Yang , Jin You

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When advantages disappear: Long-term trends in gender and social origin inequalities and the rise of horizontal stratification in higher education in South Korea

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-03-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101036

Seongsoo Choi , Subin Lee

{"title":"When advantages disappear: Long-term trends in gender and social origin inequalities and the rise of horizontal stratification in higher education in South Korea","authors":"Seongsoo Choi , Subin Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101036","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101036","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Recent research on educational stratification has shifted focus from vertical to horizontal inequalities and the intersectionality of gender and social origin. Yet, little empirical research has examined how these multidimensional inequalities emerge and evolve over time. We argue that as traditional advantages by gender and SES decline, new horizontal inequalities may arise, maintaining advantage for privileged groups. Using nine nationally representative survey samples, we analyze South Korea, where higher education expanded rapidly in the late 20th century, examining cohort trends in gender and SES gaps across both vertical (college completion) and horizontal (institutional selectivity and STEM choice) dimensions. Our findings show that while the male advantage disappeared and SES disparities in college access narrowed, a new gap emerged, favoring high-SES males in STEM fields at selective universities. We also find suggestive evidence that rising labor market demand for STEM skills may be a factor explaining recent differences in major choice between high-SES men and women. This study reveals a new pathway of educational stratification shaped interactively by gender and SES.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 101036"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143642119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The legacy of names. Persistence in social status in Sweden 1865–2015

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-03-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101033

Elien Dalman

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Social inequalities in children’s cognitive and socioemotional development: The role of home learning environments and early childhood education

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-03-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101034

Ilaria Pietropoli , Pablo Gracia

{"title":"Social inequalities in children’s cognitive and socioemotional development: The role of home learning environments and early childhood education","authors":"Ilaria Pietropoli , Pablo Gracia","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101034","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101034","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study uses high-quality longitudinal data from the <em>Growing Up in Ireland</em> study to examine the interplay between home learning environment (HLE) and early childhood education (ECE) in explaining children’s skills development from 9 months to 5 years old across parental socioeconomic status (SES). Random-effects linear regression models show that: (1) supportive HLE improves children’s cognitive and socioemotional skills and ECE quality critically fosters early socioemotional skills; (2) SES is associated with higher early cognitive and socioemotional outcomes, while responsive and consistent parenting behaviours among low-SES parents is particularly critical to improve their children’s socioemotional well-being; (3) high-quality ECE attendance compensates for children’s behavioural problems in less responsive parenting environments, especially among low-SES families, whereas home literacy stimulation is necessary condition for high-quality ECE attendance to benefit children’s early cognitive skills. Overall, HLE and ECE mutually interact in explaining differences in children’s early skills development across SES groups.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 101034"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143609963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The socio-organisational embeddedness of work-life mobility

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101032

Per Block , Jan O. Jonsson

{"title":"The socio-organisational embeddedness of work-life mobility","authors":"Per Block , Jan O. Jonsson","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101032","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101032","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>There has recently been renewed interest in occupational mobility over the life-course. We argue that such studies should place greater emphasis on organisational and social embeddings of occupations as key drivers of mobility. Occupations are interconnected by their organisational, regional, and industrial contexts, which create mobility opportunities. These contexts also foster social relations that underpin classic mobility predictors such as social capital, cultural capital, and aspiration, all of which guide occupational choices. Building on the idea that social and organisational relations between occupations shape the overall structure of social mobility, we devise a structural model that focuses not on variables, but on emergent mobility patterns. We conceptualise the mobility table as a network, fitting a loglinear model including concentration, reciprocity, and clustering parameters. This model is applied to analyse intra-generational mobility between 59 micro-classes in the UK during the first decade of this century, using data from the British Household Panel Survey. We find that emergent patterns are strong predictors of mobility. When comparing our model to a conventional social-class based one, we find that social-class parameters decrease by 88 % after the inclusion of network patterns. We conclude that the socio-organisational embeddedness of occupations is an overlooked structuring force behind work-life mobility.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 101032"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143552087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Consequences of expanded vocationally oriented programs for gender segregation and inequality: The case of Japanese higher education

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-02-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101024

Fumiya Uchikoshi , Kohei Toyonaga , Erika Teramoto

{"title":"Consequences of expanded vocationally oriented programs for gender segregation and inequality: The case of Japanese higher education","authors":"Fumiya Uchikoshi , Kohei Toyonaga , Erika Teramoto","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101024","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101024","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, we integrate two bodies of literature on higher education—horizontal stratification and gender segregation—to generate new insights into the consequences of the increase in vocationally oriented programs for gender segregation and inequality. We specifically examine the case of Japan, where college expansion and women’s increasing enrollment in four-year universities have been driven by the proliferation of nonselective private sectors. Two sets of analyses using administrative and survey data reveal the following findings. First, the relative increase in female enrollments in private institutions is driven by the growth of vocationally oriented programs, which typically offer publicly certified licenses for female-dominant occupations. If there was no such increase, then gender segregation in terms of fields of study would have decreased more than observed. Second, we find that those from low socioeconomic background are more likely to be enrolled in vocational fields such as nursing, education and home economics. These results suggest that women’s increased college attendance in Japan contributes to the growth of <em>double gender segregation</em> in terms of fields of study and institutional selectivity by incorporating less privileged women into these sectors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 101024"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143609964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The impact of tracking in a stratified education system on idealistic educational aspirations in migrant and native families

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-02-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101022

Andrés Gomensoro , Marieke Heers , Chantal Kamm , Sandra Hupka-Brunner

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