Lindsay Paterson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 281505 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Lindsay Paterson |
| NOMBRES | Lindsay |
| APELLIDO | Paterson |
| FIRMA | PATERSON L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2745-3531 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 79 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 242 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 79 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Lessons from Scottish Schools
Uninformed Consent
The Health and Wellbeing Census was a survey of school pupils which was devised by the Scottish Government and was carried out by 16 of the 32 Scottish local authorities in 2021–22. It caused controversy at the time, mainly because it asked questions about the respondents’ sexual activity, and alcohol and smoking consumption, and also because it asked about quite intimate details of their family life. These concerns were dismissed as unfounded by…
Methodological Questions when using the Scottish Census of 2022
Like all modern censuses, the Scottish population census of 2022 was more than merely an enumeration of people who responded to the census questionnaire. Statistical weighting, adjustment, and imputation were a core part of the work. These techniques were especially important in compensating for the relatively disappointing response rate. The National Records of Scotland, which manages the census, have addressed these problems skilfully and imagi…
A long view of social mobility in Scotland and the role of economic changes
Changes in the social mobility of men in Scotland between the late-19th and the late-twentieth century are examined using new individual-level data from nineteenth-century censuses, linking records of men aged 0-19 in 1871 to their records in 1901, and then comparing their patterns with the social mobility of men aged 30-49 in 1974 and in 2001 as recorded in social surveys at these dates. The extent of social mobility in the nineteenth century wa…
Scottish Performance in the Programme for International Student Assessment, 2006–2022
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), run by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), is the largest regular investigation of school students’ attainment globally. It has been conducted usually every three years since 2006, measuring attainment of 15-year-olds in reading, mathematics and science. It also records wide-ranging information about students’ social characteristics and about their experience…
A New Class for a Renewed Nation
Tom Nairn once suggested that making a new nation always entails making a new class. This observation by one of Scotland's most influential intellectuals from the long era of campaigning for a Scottish parliament is used here as the starting point for investigating how the social basis of views about Scotland's governing system has evolved since the 1990s. The consolidation of support for the system that was established in 1999, and the growth of…
Social class and sex differences in absolute and relative educational attainment in England, Scotland and Wales since the middle of the twentieth century
Changes over time in social-class inequality of educational attainment have been shown by previous research to depend on whether attainment is measured absolutely or relatively. The pioneering work in this respect by Bukodi and Goldthorpe found that inequality has fallen when attainment is measured absolutely (for example, as the percentage completing full secondary schooling) but has changed less when a relative measure is used (for example, rea…
Breadth of study at secondary school and the attainment and progression of university graduates in Scotland, 1960–2002
The relationship between the breadth of the curriculum which university students followed at secondary school and their degree attainment or their entry to employment is studied using a series of surveys of graduates from Scottish universities between 1960 and 2002. The relationship of the school curriculum to the later experience of students who entered university has not been extensively studied. Scotland is a useful case study for this purpose…
Secondary Schools in Twentieth-century Edinburgh
Schooling in Edinburgh is often seen as a uniquely divisive social issue, reflecting the relatively large size of the selective independent sector that, because it charges fees, caters mainly for the affluent middle class. Yet the actual history of the city’s schools during the twentieth century suggests a more complex account. For reasons relating to the size of inherited endowments, the schools that are now independent of local-authority manage…
Haldanes of Cloan
Education and support for Scottish Independence, 1979-2016
The rise in support for Scottish independence between the 1970s and the 2010s has shaped Scottish politics and policy profoundly. The rise provokes a paradox: in this same period, the average educational level of people living in Scotland has also risen strongly, and yet, at each particular moment in time, higher levels of education have been associated with lower levels of support for independence. Scotland is an interesting case of wider develo…
Independence is not Going Away
Support for Scottish independence has remained stable since the change in the leadership of the Scottish National Party in March 2023, despite the fall in support for the party. The article analyses the sociological basis of independence support since 1979, using data from the Scottish Social Attitudes Survey and recent opinion polls. The recent stability reflects three main changes: the pronounced growth in support among people born since the 19…
School leavers and educational reform in Scotland in the second half of the twentieth century
A unique series of surveys of school leavers in Scotland, stretching from the early 1950s to the late 1990s, is used to investigate long-term developments in the transition of young people from school. Transitions changed greatly in the half century; these changes varied by sex and socio-economic status. School attainment became increasingly important in giving school leavers access to post-school education, especially for female students and for…
Higher education expansion and the secondary school curriculum in Scotland in the second half of the twentieth century
The conclusion of recent research on the relationship between students’ school curriculum and their opportunities to enter higher education has generally been that curricular differentiation is a further dimension of social stratification, and that it has become a mechanism of effectively maintained inequality, in the sense defined by Lucas. The present analysis uses a unique series of surveys of school leavers in Scotland, covering the whole of …
Education and Social Science
This article is the second of two relating to an event at the University of Edinburgh to mark the coming retirement of Lindsay Paterson, Professor of Education Policy. Here Paterson outlines his views on the study of education, exploring the reasons why such study is central to academic enterprise, and considering the methods through which we can effectively understand it
Participation in science in secondary and higher education in Scotland in the second half of the twentieth century
Scientific and mathematical education has expanded in most education systems in the twentieth century, especially in the second half when there emerged the perception among policy-makers that science and technology were essential to a flourishing economy and to individual opportunity. Scotland provides a useful case study of the expansion, for two reasons. One is that it has included natural science in its emerging secondary-school curriculum at …
Schools, policy and social change
The analysis uses a unique series of surveys of school students in Scotland, covering the whole of the second half of the twentieth century, to investigate whether educational reforms can reduce inequalities of educational progress and attainment, and the role of school history in mediating these intentions. This period included the policy reforms that ended selection for public-sector schools between the mid-1960s and the early 1980s. Informatio…
Education and high-status occupations in the UK since the middle of the twentieth century
Previous research on historical trends in the UK in social-class and sex inequality in educational attainment and in occupational opportunity is extended well into the present century by means of the UK Household Longitudinal Study, with a particular focus on variation among England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. In England, Wales and Scotland, class inequality of educational attainment declined during the transition to non-selective seco…
Filial Intelligence and Family Social Class, 1947 to 2012
Intelligence, or cognitive ability, is a key variable in reproducing social inequality. On the one hand, it is associated with the social class in which a child grows up. On the other, it is a predictor of educational attainment, labor-market experiences, social mobility, health and well-being, and length of life. Therefore measured intelligence is important to our understanding of how inequality operates and is reproduced. The present analysis u…
R. B. Haldane
Higher education and school history in Scotland in the second half of the twentieth century
The relationship between students’ entry to higher education and the history or status of the secondary school which they attended is examined using school leavers’ surveys in Scotland stretching from the early 1950s to the late 1990s. The surveys are unique in the length of this period, their details of the higher-education institutions and schools which students attended, and their information on school attainment and on socio-economic status a…
Catholic schools and the Education (Scotland) Act, 1918
The Education (Scotland) Act, 1918, has been widely interpreted as reflecting the diverse and inclusive nature of Scotland, integrating Catholic children into the national system. Although not entirely wrong, this view is inaccurate. As the founding moment of Scotland's twentieth-century education, its over-riding purpose was secular: it was not really about Catholics or any other specific group in society, but about fostering individual liberal …
Social inequality in Catholic schools in Scotland in the second half of the twentieth century
Denominational secondary schools in Scotland have been an influential means by which Catholics have achieved full social citizenship. Most of the Catholic population of Scotland has its origins in late-nineteenth-century migration from Ireland into low-skilled occupations. Although the church built a system of Catholic primary schools, it could not afford to extend this for secondary education, and so a compromise of 1918 allowed the state to tak…
The experience of school in Scotland, 1970s to 1990s
Reforms to secondary schooling in the 20th century are most commonly discussed in relation to structures—the extension of secondary education to all students in the first half of the century, and the ending of selection into different kinds of school after the 1960s. Yet reformers also sought to give students a more satisfactory experience of school. Understanding statistically the changing experience which students had of secondary school follow…
Why Swedes Trust the State and Scots Do Not
This paper explores how the Protestant traditions of Calvinist Presbyterianism and Lutheranism have shaped church-state relations differently in Scotland and Sweden, resulting in different understandings of the role of the state and civil society in public welfare. It finds that high levels of public trust in the state's authority and state intervention in Sweden can be traced back to Lutheran doctrine and institutionally close links between the …
New Statistical Methods for Analysing Social Structures
An introductory account is given of developments in multilevel modelling of educational and other social data. The technique is introduced with some simple examples and its importance is explained. Examples of applications in a number of areas are given, including repeated measures designs, school effectiveness studies, area‐based studies and political opinion sample surveys. Almost all data collected in the social sciences have some form of inhe…
Political attitudes, social participation and social mobility
It is often suggested that the political attitudes and social participation which have underpinned the welfare-state democracies have depended on large amounts of upward social mobility. The demographic heterogeneity of the service class, according to this view, induced in them a willingness to lead a common political project seeking to establish a common social citizenship. As the amount of upward mobility stagnates or even begins to fall, it ha…
Online discussion and the 2014 Scottish independence referendum
The Conundrum of Scottish Independence
Social Class and Educational Attainment
This article examines variations among England, Wales, and Scotland in the association between social origin and educational attainment and the role that different national educational policies may have played in shaping these variations. The findings show that country variation in the association between origins and attainment was mostly or entirely due to variations in overall levels of attainment. Moreover, inequality was the highest where the…
Fields of study
This paper assesses the extent to which fields of study and postsecondary institutional sectors serve as mechanisms to preserve social stratification in Scottish higher education. We develop a hierarchy of fields of study based on their social-class and income returns, avoiding problems of circularity that occur when fields of study are ranked by their selectivity. We combine data from representative surveys from six cohorts of Scottish school le…
Education and social mobility in Scotland
Patterns of Absolute and Relative Social Mobility
We use the British Household Panel Study to analyse change over birth cohorts in patterns of social mobility in England, Scotland and Wales. In several respects, our conclusions are similar to those reached by other authors on the basis of wider comparisons. There has been a large growth in non-manual employment since the middle of the twentieth century. This led first to a rise in upward mobility, but, as parents of younger people have now thems…
Social Mobility in Scotland since the Middle of the Twentieth Century
Extensive mobility between class of origin and class of destination has been a characteristic feature of societies in Europe and North America since the middle of the twentieth century. Most mobility has been upward, and most of that has been explicable by occupational change - by the rise in the proportion of the labour force which works in service-class jobs and the decline in the proportion in manual jobs. This pattern may now be changing, bec…
Scottish Democracy and Scottish Utopias
Trends in social class segregation between schools in England, Wales and Scotland since 1984
The article describes trends in social class segregation between British secondary schools from 1984 to 1999, and includes ‘home international’ comparisons of trends in England, Wales and Scotland. The analysis is based on comparable youth cohort datasets: the England and Wales Youth Cohort Study and the Scottish School Leavers’ Survey. The measures of social class are derived from parents’ occupational status and education, and thus provide diff…
Constitutional Crisis
Journal Article Constitutional Crisis: The Causes and Consequences of the 1992 Scottish General Election Result Get access LINDSAY PATERSON, LINDSAY PATERSON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ALICE BROWN, ALICE BROWN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DAVID McCRONE DAVID McCRONE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affair…
The Reinvention of Scottish Liberal Education
Scottish secondary education was radically extended in size and social reach in the first four decades of the twentieth century, bringing significant new opportunities in secondary schooling to girls, to children of the lower-middle and upper-working classes, and to Catholics. Most of the new secondary schools were based on those parish schools that had in the nineteenth century sent a few boys directly to university, and so this new secondary se…
Religion, social mobility and education in Scotland
The relationship among religion, education and social mobility in Scotland is analysed statistically using the Scottish Household Survey of 2001. The large sample size allows much greater statistical power for this purpose than any previous source, and thus allows a more reliable assessment of claims that the stratifying effect of religion in Scotland may have declined. The questions investigated are as follows. What are the religious differences…
Reforming local government in Scotland
Schools, policy and social change
The analysis uses a unique series of surveys of school students in Scotland, covering the whole of the second half of the twentieth century, to investigate whether educational reforms can reduce inequalities of educational progress and attainment, and the role of school history in mediating these intentions. This period included the policy reforms that ended selection for public-sector schools between the mid-1960s and the early 1980s. Informatio…
Is Britain Disintegrating? Changing Views of 'Britain' after Devolution
The Significance of the Education (Scotland) Act, 1918
The Education (Scotland) Act of 1918 was the most influential piece of legislation governing Scottish education in the twentieth century, and the system which it established is still essentially in place today. Yet it is remembered now mostly because of one of its provisions – setting up a mechanism by which Catholic schools could transfer from the ownership of the Church to that of the locally elected Education Authorities. Significant though th…
Utopian Pragmatism
The Scottish referendum of autumn 2014 has been debated as if it was a unique moment in the country's history, and in several senses it was indeed unprecedented – in the level of engagement by citizens which it stimulated, in the acceptance by all sides to the debate that the decision on independence was Scotland's alone (which was an implicit recognition of popular sovereignty), and in its being the first ever democratic and explicit endorsement…
Public Attitudes to Gaelic and the Debate about Scottish Autonomy
Scotland seems to be a counter-example to general theories of the relationship between language and national identity or nationalism. These theories point to three components in the ideology of language and nation – that being able to speak the national language is necessary for full national membership, that the national language is a core part of the nation’s culture, and that the future of national political autonomy and the future of the nati…
The Modernising of the Democratic Intellect
The Scottish Parliament and Scottish Civil Society
The use of the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation as an indicator to evaluate the impact of policy on widening access to higher education
Policy on widening access to higher education in Scotland is defined mainly in terms of students who live in deprived areas as defined by the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation. Although area measures can be informative, and are convenient because they require only a postcode to classify any person into a deprivation category, they are crude. We use data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency, the Growing Up in Scotland Survey and the Sc…
Scottish Autonomy and the Future of the Welfare State
Scottish autonomy and the Scottish welfare state have been inseparable, each inconceivable in its present form without the other. On the one hand, the nature of Scottish government has been shaped by the development of the welfare state since the mid-twentieth century, drawing also on the legacy of autonomy from previous constitutional settlements with the rest of the UK. In these respects, Scotland is a paradigm of the position of many small nat…
A multilevel model for community segregation
Segregation indices can be modelled statistically by using bootstrap re‐sampling along with multilevel modelling. Computer software is now available to accomplish this straightforwardly. Examples are provided from measurements of social‐class segregation among Scottish secondary‐school pupils. The modelling shows that some of the differences in segregation between communities can be attributed to characteristics of the communities. Extensions of …
New Statistical Methods for Analysing Social Structures
An introductory account is given of developments in multilevel modelling of educational and other social data. The technique is introduced with some simple examples and its importance is explained. Examples of applications in a number of areas are given, including repeated measures designs, school effectiveness studies, area‐based studies and political opinion sample surveys. Almost all data collected in the social sciences have some form of inhe…
Constitutional Crisis
Journal Article Constitutional Crisis: The Causes and Consequences of the 1992 Scottish General Election Result Get access LINDSAY PATERSON, LINDSAY PATERSON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ALICE BROWN, ALICE BROWN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DAVID McCRONE DAVID McCRONE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affair…
Local variation in the Scottish pilot projects of the Technical and Vocational Education Initiative
This report is a statistical evaluation of the Scottish pilot projects in one of the largest experimental innovations ever to have been undertaken in British schools ‐‐ the Technical and Vocational Education Initiative (TVEI). The TVEI had deliberately exploratory aims, to encourage the technological and vocational education of students at school and college. The evaluation is based on data from the 2‐yearly Scottish Young People's Survey: thus t…
Reforming local government in Scotland
How Distinctive is Scottish Higher Education
Everyone seems to agree these days that Scottish higher education is going through one of the biggest upheavals in its history. Student numbers are expanding, the structure of funding is being revolutionised, and the hallowed link between teaching and research is being eroded and will probably soon be severed altogether. Presiding over these changes, moreover, is what appears to be a wholly new governing structure: the Scottish Higher Education F…
A multilevel model for community segregation
Segregation indices can be modelled statistically by using bootstrap re‐sampling along with multilevel modelling. Computer software is now available to accomplish this straightforwardly. Examples are provided from measurements of social‐class segregation among Scottish secondary‐school pupils. The modelling shows that some of the differences in segregation between communities can be attributed to characteristics of the communities. Extensions of …
Conclusion
Asking whether nationalism matters often strikes people in the real world as a typically academic quibble. Obviously, they feel, it does. It has not only outlasted communism; it helped to bring it down, insofar as resentment at Soviet (or, in fact, Russian) domination was one of the central motives for the rebellions that swept eastern and central Europe in the late 1980s. It continues to frustrate any tendency there might be in capitalism toward…
Scottish Autonomy and the Future of the Welfare State
Scottish autonomy and the Scottish welfare state have been inseparable, each inconceivable in its present form without the other. On the one hand, the nature of Scottish government has been shaped by the development of the welfare state since the mid-twentieth century, drawing also on the legacy of autonomy from previous constitutional settlements with the rest of the UK. In these respects, Scotland is a paradigm of the position of many small nat…
Individual Autonomy and Comprehensive Education
The welfare states in developed societies have led to significant individuali‐sation of social experience. The relative success of the welfare state programme has mitigated the determining effects of social structure on life chances (even though not by any means eradicating these effects). In reaction to this, citizens of these states have sought to exercise greater agency in determining their social lives. The specifically educational aspects of…
Scottish home rule
Scottish higher education and the Scottish parliament
The creation of a Scottish parliament in 1999 will crystallize a cultural crisis for Scottish higher education. Scottish universities retained their autonomy after the 18th-century union between Scotland and England because the union was about high politics rather than the affairs of civil society and culture. Unlike in England, the universities developed in close relationship with Scottish agencies of the state during the 19th century, and these…
Higher Education, Social Capital and the Scottish Parliament
The Scottish Parliament and Scottish Civil Society
The discovery of medieval deposits beneath the Earl's Palace, Kirkwall, Orkney
Discusses the 1982 archaeological investigations below the tennis courts and walls of the seventeenth-century palace which revealed a range of medieval features and deposits probably associated with the earlier Bishop's Palace or Palace of the Yards. A major find of the excavations was a wooden Scandinavian-type comb and it is suggested that it may have been brought from Trondheim in Norway in the thirteenth century (given the close connection be…
The Social Class of Catholics in Scotland
The social status of people brought up as Catholics in Scotland, as measured by their occupational class, is analysed by using cross-sectional survey data gathered in 1997. The main finding is that Catholics have probably risen in social status to a greater extent than non-Catholics. The experience of Scottish Catholics seems to be distinctive, because no such patterns are found for England, and indeed in this respect Scottish Catholics more clos…
Social Inclusion and the Scottish Parliament
Scottish Democracy and Scottish Utopias
Principles of Research Design in the Social Sciences
Does Civil Society Speak for the People? Evidence from a Survey of Scottish Teachers
It has been claimed by many writers recently that civil society can lead a process of political renewal in the liberal democracies. However, the extent to which civil society is in touch with popular feeling has been challenged from both the right and the left. The paper examines one currently fluid case: civil society in Scotland, which in 1999 acquired its first parliament for three centuries following an emphatic referendum vote in 1997 in fav…
Civil Society
Research Article| December 01 2000 Civil Society: ENLIGHTENMENT IDEAL AND DEMOTIC NATIONALISM Lindsay Paterson Lindsay Paterson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2000) 18 (4 (65)): 109–116. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-18-4_65-109 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lindsay Paterson; Civil Society: ENLIGHTENMENT IDEAL AND DEMOTIC NATIONALISM. Social Text 1 December 200…
Does Consultation Work? The Scottish Parliament's First Two Years
This article deals with two broad issues arising from the way in which the Scottish parliament has tried to work in its first two years (1999-2001). The first concerns the operation in practice of the attempts at a more cooperative style of politics (the aspirations to which arc explained in Alice Brown's chapter). The main question here is whether cooperative politics is to be based in civil society or is to be in tension with civil society. The…
Is Britain Disintegrating? Changing Views of 'Britain' after Devolution
The Conundrum of Scottish Independence
The Modernising of the Democratic Intellect
Have Scottish Academic Values Been Eroded
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