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Middle-class economic power and the evolution of educational systems 中产阶级的经济实力和教育体系的演变

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101112

Natalie A.E. Young , Emily Hannum

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A similarity index for all occupations 所有职业的相似指数

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101113

Ananda Martin-Caughey

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Perceived gender egalitarian progress in the labor market and overeducation in China, Japan, and Taiwan 中国、日本和台湾在劳动力市场和过度教育方面的性别平等进步

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101108

Siqi Han , Siman Cai

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Choice homophily on social origin and race: Experimental evidence from a US university 社会出身和种族的选择同质性：来自美国一所大学的实验证据

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101103

Hyang-gi Song , William Foley , Arnout van de Rijt , Klarita Gërxhani

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Does course-level really matter?: Between-family confounding in the association between high school course-level and educational attainment 课程水平真的重要吗？高中课程水平与受教育程度之间存在家庭间混淆

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101109

Samuel H. Fishman , Michael Ervin

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Enduring boundaries, emerging bridges: Patterns of caste and ethnic intermarriage in Nepal 持久的边界，新兴的桥梁：尼泊尔种姓和种族通婚的模式

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101104

Yanwen Wang

{"title":"Enduring boundaries, emerging bridges: Patterns of caste and ethnic intermarriage in Nepal","authors":"Yanwen Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101104","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101104","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Intermarriage is often seen as a solvent of caste and ethnic divisions. This study provides the first nationwide analysis of intermarriage in Nepal, drawing on data from the 2001 and 2011 censuses. Despite Nepal’s remarkable diversity, intermarriage remains exceedingly rare, comprising only 0.74 % of all marriages. Only Madhesi Brahman/Chhetri, Newar, and MPB (Marwadi, Punjabi, Bangali) communities surpass 1 %. Log-linear models reveal persistent, though weakening, intergroup boundaries, with indigenous Janajatis exhibiting greater openness. Gender asymmetries—such as lower-caste men marrying into higher-caste groups—are evident. Education most effectively facilitates intermarriage for women from disadvantaged groups (e.g., Dalits, Janajatis) but has limited or even negative effects among privileged groups. Child marriage, still present in nearly half of all unions, reinforces caste endogamy, especially among Dalits. However, unexpectedly higher intermarriage rates in child marriages among privileged communities suggest strategic out-marriages. These findings highlight the enduring resilience of caste and ethnic divisions in Nepal, while identifying educational expansion and enforcement of minimum marriage age, especially targeting disadvantaged populations, as promising pathways toward social integration. These insights carry important implications for policies aimed at reducing caste- and ethnicity-based stratification in Nepal and similarly divided societies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"100 ","pages":"Article 101104"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145362709","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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Social selection in student mobility: The interplay of origin, achievement and track in the Italian North-South divide 学生流动中的社会选择：意大利南北分化中出身、成就和轨迹的相互作用

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101105

Andrea Priulla , Eleonora Miaci , Nazareno Panichella

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Loss of Vocabulary Growth during Lockdown? Stability in Language Trajectories among bi- and monolingual Children during the School Closures 2020/2021 封锁期间词汇量增长减少？2020/2021学年停课期间双语和单语儿童语言轨迹的稳定性

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101106

Christian Lohmann , Teresa Haller

{"title":"Loss of Vocabulary Growth during Lockdown? Stability in Language Trajectories among bi- and monolingual Children during the School Closures 2020/2021","authors":"Christian Lohmann , Teresa Haller","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101106","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101106","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Theories of language acquisition suggest that primary school constitutes a pivotal source of majority-language exposure, which is particularly important for bilingual children. During the periods of school closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, this source of language input was reduced or even entirely unavailable for several months, raising the question of how the language competences of mono- and bilingual children developed during this time. This study examines the German receptive vocabulary development of mono- and bilingual primary school children in Germany at the time of the COVID-19 school closures, using data from the Newborn Cohort of the German National Educational Panel Study from 2015 to 2021. Contrary to the theoretical expectation of exacerbated educational disparities, our findings reveal no significant widening of the existing vocabulary gap between mono- and bilingual children during the pandemic. Despite the potential for reduced German language exposure, particularly among bilingual children, vocabulary trajectories remained surprisingly stable in both groups, with bilingual children even showing signs of a slight but significant catch-up effect. Additional analyses to examine potential growing vocabulary gaps by migration background or parental education yielded no evidence of a widening achievement gap in vocabulary. These findings may be attributed to the well-documented stability of receptive vocabulary, as well as to various other factors outlined in the discussion. Our study contributes to the body of differentiated research on educational impacts of the pandemic and highlights the importance of careful examination regarding the relationship between school and competence development in the context of social inequalities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"100 ","pages":"Article 101106"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145568420","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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Do mothers’ occupation-specific skills impact children’s developmental processes? 母亲的职业技能会影响孩子的发展过程吗？

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101102

Alicia García-Sierra

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Household income mobility in France over the COVID-19 pandemic: Losers and winners of the crisis 新冠肺炎大流行期间法国家庭收入流动性：危机的输家和赢家

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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101093

Marta Veljkovic , Ettore Recchi , Andrew Zola

{"title":"Household income mobility in France over the COVID-19 pandemic: Losers and winners of the crisis","authors":"Marta Veljkovic , Ettore Recchi , Andrew Zola","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101093","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101093","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Economic hardship induced by the COVID-19 pandemic has mainly been studied over the initial outbreak. We track household income mobility from before to the end of the epidemiological crisis with longitudinal data from France, where welfare support over this period was comparatively strong, possibly protecting households from income loss. In addition to rising inequalities in the overall distribution of household equivalized income attested by income Gini dynamics, downward mobility increased considerably over the crisis (2019–2022) compared to the pre-pandemic years (2016–2019). However, patterns of income loss were independent from COVID-related health conditions and remained largely stable across different social groups from before through the crisis. These findings contradict the idea that the pandemic acted as a ‘great equalizer’, but at the same time do not fully support the view that the crisis exacerbated economic inequalities along the lines of a strict definition of cumulative disadvantage. In fact, we find persistent patterns of exposure to the risks of downward household income mobility from the pre-pandemic period. We interpret these results partially as a reflection of robust welfare transfers in France that turned an otherwise exceptional crisis into a time of ‘business as usual’ for income dynamics. Meanwhile, the ‘winners’ of the pandemic appear to be the households that preserved their income, and have members who largely belong to privileged groups.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"100 ","pages":"Article 101093"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145027296","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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