Carlo Barone
Biographic Data
| ID | 222149 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carlo Barone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carlo |
| FAMILY NAME | Barone |
| SIGNATURE | BARONE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4309-7001 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 393 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Turning the tide, or treading water? On the politics of sociological standards
This commentary questions why progress toward more rigorous standards has been so slow 25 years after the creation of the EAS. It argues the problem is structural rather than cognitive: critical and expressive sociology dominate hiring, publishing, and editorial gatekeeping, and their success criteria are largely orthogonal to methodological rigor. It contends that more rapid progress will require not just moral suasion but a more aggressive capt…
Socioeconomic divides in curricular pathways: Unpacking decision-making mechanisms and peer effects
This study develops and tests a comprehensive framework to explain socioeconomic inequalities in curricular choices, using England as a test case. Drawing on rational choice theory, bounded rationality, behavioural science, and culturalist perspectives, we evaluate a broad set of explanatory mechanisms. Linking rich survey data to administrative records, we examine both individual-level factors and peer effects, employing for the latter an instru…
Unequal access to early childcare: What role do cognitive and behavioral factors play? A PRISMA systematic review
Despite well-documented inequalities in access to early childcare services for underprivileged populations, the cognitive and behavioral factors contributing to these disparities have been largely overlooked in existing frameworks. This article addresses this gap by integrating insights from behavioral economics and other behavioral sciences into the analysis of unequal access. First, we expand existing theoretical models by incorporating cogniti…
The multiverse of social class: A large-scale assessment of macro-level, meso-level and micro-level approaches to class analysis
Different class theories suggest competing mechanisms behind stratification and assume primacy of different levels of occupational aggregation. By comparing eight class schemes across 12 outcomes with data from more than 546,000 individuals in 61 countries, we offer the most comprehensive multi-scheme comparison of class stratification. Additionally, we evaluate scheme differences across different analytical settings (pooled data, smaller random …
A randomized controlled trial on the effect of administrative burden and information costs on social inequalities in early childcare access in France
Dual-Process Theory, Behavioral Research, and the Explanation of Social Inequalities
This article explores how dual-process theory (DPT) can be articulated to build a comprehensive toolbox of mechanisms for explaining social phenomena and, more specifically, social inequalities. I argue that a major strength of Evans and Stanovich's dual-process approach is that it recognizes the heuristic relevance of both automatic and controlled processes and specifies the conditions of their activation, providing a situated perspective on hum…
Educational tracking and social inequalities in long-term labor market outcomes: Six countries in comparison
In this country-comparative study, we ask to what extent differentiation in secondary education accounts for the association between social origins and social destinations in adult age. We go beyond the widely applied formal definitions of educational tracking and particularly pay attention to country-specific approaches to educational differentiation. Our main expectation is that once we factor in these particularities, the degree to which educa…
Les enjeux de régulation éthique dans les expérimentations de terrain en sciences humaines et sociales
Les expérimentations de terrain ont deux vertus épistémiques principales : la capacité à étayer des inférences causales et le réalisme. L'article s'intéresse à deux enjeux de régulation éthique que soulève cette méthodologie et que nous résumons par les expressions « éthique de la randomisation » et « éthique de la dissimulation ». La première est introduite et illustrée à partir d'exemples concernant la sphère scolaire, tandis que la seconde fai…
Measuring Class Hierarchies in Postindustrial Societies: A Criterion and Construct Validation of EGP and Esec Across 31 Countries
In social stratification research, the most frequently used social class schema are based on employment relations (EGP and ESEC). These schemes have been propelled to paradigms for research on social mobility and educational inequalities and applied in cross-national research for both genders. Using the European Working Conditions Survey, we examine their criterion and construct validity across 31 countries and for both genders. We investigate wh…
Parental Schooling, Educational Attainment, Skills, and Earnings: A Trend Analysis across Fifteen Countries
Using data on fifteen countries based on the harmonization of IALS and PIAC data, we provide a cross-national analysis of the evolution of the role of educational attainment and cognitive skills as mediators of intergenerational inequalities between 1994 and 2015. We find that the association between parents’ education and children’s earnings is large and highly stable over time in most countries, except for Scandinavian countries, where we detec…
Are upper-secondary track decisions risky? Evidence from Sweden on the assumptions of risk-aversion models
Relative risk aversion (RRA) models explain social class inequalities in education with risk avoidance, i.e., the risky choice assumption (RCA). This assumption concerns risks related to more ambitious educational choices and has been subject to little explicit scrutiny. In this paper, we test whether or not vocational education is a safety net that protects from labor market marginalization. We present an empirical assessment of upper-secondary …
The effects of an information campaign beyond university enrolment: A large-scale field experiment on the choices of high school students
Les mandarins et la horde bibliométrique: Normes, conflits et évolutions de l’espace de la sociologie italienne
L’article présente les équilibres, oppositions et conflits des dernières décennies qui ont contribué à la réorganisation institutionnelle de la sociologie italienne, ainsi qu’à l’évolution de ses pratiques de recrutement, d’évaluation et d’avancement. Ces changements sont toujours en cours et leurs partisans et opposants continuent à s’affronter ; notre texte est donc aussi un peu l’histoire d’un combat qui fait encore rage. Dans une première par…
The rise of income and the demise of class and social status? A systematic review of measures of socio-economic position in stratification research
Baccalaureate Tracks and Employment at the End of Education: Contribution of the Educational Pathway and Analysis of Gender Gaps
Herbaut Estelle, Barone Carlo, Vallet Louis-André. Filières du baccalauréat et emploi à la fin des études : contribution des parcours scolaires et analyse des écarts entre femmes et hommes / Baccalaureate Tracks and Employment at the End of Education: Contribution of the Educational Pathway and Analysis of Gender Gaps . In: Economie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics, n°530-31, 2022. pp. 65-86
Analytical sociology and social stratification research
This chapter argues that analytical sociology (AS) and social stratification research (SSR) are progressively converging towards a shared understanding of the core tasks of sociology: investing major efforts in rigorously establishing interrelated empirical findings; moving beyond empirical data to identify the generative mechanisms via micro-level theories inspired to the principles of methodological individualism; formalizing and testing the pr…
Upper secondary tracks and student competencies: A selection or a causal effect? Evidence from the Italian case
Explaining gender segregation in higher education: Longitudinal evidence on the French case
This article examines how girls and boys choose their tertiary field of study and how the different factors driving their choices contribute to gender segregation in higher education (GSHE) in France. We present seven theoretical explanations for GSHE, review the relevant literature and discuss their applicability to the French context. Using rich longitudinal data combining administrative sources, students, parents and school head questionnaires…
Relative risk aversion models: How plausible are their assumptions
This work examines the validity of the two main assumptions of relative risk-aversion models of educational inequality. We compare the Breen-Goldthorpe (BG) and the Breen-Yaish (BY) models in terms of their assumptions about status maintenance motives and beliefs about the occupational risks associated with educational decisions. Concerning the first assumption, our contribution is threefold. First, we criticise the assumption of the BG model tha…
L'apport des méthodes mixtes à l'évaluation: Une expérimentation randomisée dans le champ des politiques éducatives
L'article présente l'apport des méthodes mixtes à partir d'une recherche qui avait un double but : concevoir un programme d'action promouvant la lecture parentale en étant adapté au cas de familles défavorisées ; prouver l'existence d'un lien causal entre la mise en œuvre de ce programme et l'amélioration du vocabulaire des enfants. Tout en recourant à un essai aléatoire contrôlé, généralement associé aux méthodes quantitatives, la recherche intè…
Social Origins, Shared Book Reading, and Language Skills in Early Childhood: Evidence from an Information Experiment
Shared book reading (SBR) between parents and children is often regarded as a significant mediator of social inequalities in early skill development processes. We argue that socially biased gaps between parents in the awareness of the benefits of this activity for school success contribute to inequalities between children in access to this activity and in their language development. We test this hypothesis with a large-scale field experiment asse…
Is vocational education a safety net: The occupational attainment of upper secondary graduates from vocational and academic tracks in Italy
This article assesses the employment and occupational outcomes of upper secondary education graduates from academic and vocational tracks in Italy. In particular, we formulate and test the hypothesis that – contrary to some common expectations – academic graduates outperform vocational graduates at a stage of occupational maturity, even when considering individuals without a tertiary degree. Moreover, we explore differences between tracks by gend…
Introduction: Experimental methods in social stratification research
Cultural Capital in Schools
Cultural capital theory provides a structural explanation for the persistence of educational inequalities in affluent western societies. According to Bourdieu and Passeron, upper classes manage to impose their cultural conventions as superior and more legitimate cultural expressions, which are then transmitted and valued by educational institutions, thus generating a structural advantage for upper‐class children, who enjoy a higher cultural proxi…
You Better Move On”: Determinants and Labor Market Outcomes of Graduate Migration from Italy
After the Eurozone crisis, out-migration from southern Europe revived, mostly fed by the highly skilled young. Nevertheless, little is known about these new migrants, particularly regarding the determinants and payoffs of their moves. This study delves into the Italian case, drawing on a large representative sample of the 2011 graduation cohort. Multivariate analyses show that young people from upper-class families, foreign citizens, graduates in…
Some Things Never Change: Gender Segregation in Higher Education across Eight Nations and Three Decades
This article examines the overall strength, the qualitative pattern, and the evolution over time of gender segregation in higher education across eight European countries. Although previous studies have focused primarily on the divide between humanistic and scientific fields, this work indicates that this divide accounts for no more than half of the association between gender and college major. The degree of gender imbalance is highly variable wi…
Cultural Capital, Ambition and the Explanation of Inequalities in Learning Outcomes: A Comparative Analysis
This article is devoted to the explanation of the influence of social origins on student achievement. Using the data of the Project for International Student Assessment on 25 nations, I show that cultural capital provides a relevant, but far from exhaustive, account of schooling inequalities; furthermore, the explanatory power of Bourdieu's theory seems impressively similar across countries. I also try to argue that, in order to elaborate a more …
Do they progress or do they lag behind? Educational attainment of immigrants’ children in Italy: The role played by generational status, country of origin and social class
Social origins, relative risk aversion and track choice: A field experiment on the role of information biases
This study develops and tests the hypothesis that information biases concerning the perceived extent of risk of educational options fuel social inequalities in track choice. In particular, it is argued that low-educated families are more concerned than college-educated families with the risks of dropout in the academic track, even when their children perform well at school. Moreover, they overestimate the risks of low occupational outcomes associ…
Educational equalization stalled? Trends in inequality of educational opportunity between 1930 and 1980 across 26 European nations
This article assesses trends over time in the influence of social origins on educational attainment in 26 European countries. We use a cumulative dataset that merges the European Social Survey (waves 2002–2010), the International Social Survey Programme (1999, 2009) and the European Value Study (2008). Our contribution to the literature is threefold. First, we replicate as closely as possible the previous study by Breen et al. [(2009) ‘Nonpersist…
Education as a positional good: Implications for social inequalities in educational attainment in Italy
Explaining Social Inequalities in Access to University: A Test of Rational Choice Mechanisms in Italy
This work presents a direct empirical test of the Breen–Goldthorpe (BG) rational choice model applied to social inequalities in access to university in Italy. In particular, we assess to what extent secondary effects of social background on university enrolment are accounted for by families’ economic resources and relative risk aversion (RRA), among a recent cohort of high school graduates. We also assess the role played by students’ numeric expe…
Education, cognitive skills and earnings in comparative perspective
This article investigates to what extent education is rewarded on the labour market because of the cognitive skills it indicates, using IALS data for the US, the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. By empirically distinguishing between general cognitive ability and work-specific cognitive ability, the article shows that the cognitive component of schooling is larger than anticipated by Bowles and Gintis. Instead of around 20 percent of the education…
Career Mobility in Italy
This article examines the role of social origins and education for career mobility in contemporary Italy by means of growth curves models. We find that opportunities for career advancement are rather limited and that risks of downward mobility are virtually negligible. Although this picture displays a noticeable degree of stability over time, a moderate increase of career fluidity across cohorts can be detected. Moreover, social origins and educa…
A new look at schooling inequalities in Italy and their trends over time
Is university education worth the investment? The expectations of upper secondary school seniors and the role of family background
This study assesses students' expectations about the profitability of the investment in university education. We consider Italy as a test case and provide fresh high-quality data on students' expectations concerning the costs, economic returns and chances of success of this investment. These are compared with data on the corresponding actual values. We find that the estimates provided by upper secondary school seniors are highly inaccurate, highl…
Social closure, micro-class immobility and the intergenerational reproduction of the upper class: A Comparative Study
This article assesses how processes of social closure enhance intergenerational immobility in the regulated professions and thus promote persistence at the top of the occupational hierarchy. We compare four European countries (GB, Germany, Denmark and Sweden) that differ considerably in their degree of professional regulation and in their broader institutional arrangements. We run log-linear and logistic regression models on a cumulative dataset …
Relative risk aversion models: How plausible are their assumptions
This work examines the validity of the two main assumptions of relative risk-aversion models of educational inequality. We compare the Breen-Goldthorpe (BG) and the Breen-Yaish (BY) models in terms of their assumptions about status maintenance motives and beliefs about the occupational risks associated with educational decisions. Concerning the first assumption, our contribution is threefold. First, we criticise the assumption of the BG model tha…
Measuring Class Hierarchies in Postindustrial Societies: A Criterion and Construct Validation of EGP and Esec Across 31 Countries
In social stratification research, the most frequently used social class schema are based on employment relations (EGP and ESEC). These schemes have been propelled to paradigms for research on social mobility and educational inequalities and applied in cross-national research for both genders. Using the European Working Conditions Survey, we examine their criterion and construct validity across 31 countries and for both genders. We investigate wh…
Information barriers and social stratification in higher education: Evidence From a Field Experiment
Our contribution assesses the role of information barriers for patterns of participation in Higher Education (HE) and the related social inequalities. For this purpose, we developed a large-scale clustered randomised experiment involving over 9,000 high school seniors from 62 Italian schools. We designed a counseling intervention to correct student misperceptions of the profitability of HE, that is, the costs, economic returns and chances of succ…
Nudging gender desegregation: A field experiment on the causal effect of information barriers on gender inequalities in higher education
In this article, we propose and test a novel explanation for gender segregation in Higher Education that focuses on the misperceptions of economic returns to fields of study. We frame this explanation within the literature emphasizing the role of gender-stereotypical preferences and occupational plans, and we argue that counselling activities in school can play a crucial role in either reinforcing or countering the weight of these expressive mech…
Class and Political Preferences in Europe: A Multilevel Analysis of Trends Over Time
This article analyzes trends over time in the relationship between social class and political preferences in EU countries. Multilevel models and logistic regression techniques are employed to examine Eurobarometer data for thirteen nations between 1976 and 2003. In the comparative research addressing the issue of long-term changes in class politics, class voting is the most common indicator. Instead of focussing on electoral behaviour, we analyze…
A Neo-Durkheimian analysis of a new religious movement: The case of Soka Gakkai in Italy
You Better Move On”: Determinants and Labor Market Outcomes of Graduate Migration from Italy
After the Eurozone crisis, out-migration from southern Europe revived, mostly fed by the highly skilled young. Nevertheless, little is known about these new migrants, particularly regarding the determinants and payoffs of their moves. This study delves into the Italian case, drawing on a large representative sample of the 2011 graduation cohort. Multivariate analyses show that young people from upper-class families, foreign citizens, graduates in…
Information Barriers, Social Inequality, and Plans for Higher Education: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Our article assesses the role of information barriers for patterns of educational participation and related social inequalities in plans for Higher Education (HE). Using longitudinal data, we investigate student expectations about the profitability of HE, their evolution over time and their correlation with study plans among Italian high school seniors. We find that student believes are highly inaccurate, systematically biased and poorly updated.…
Educational tracking and social inequalities in long-term labor market outcomes: Six countries in comparison
In this country-comparative study, we ask to what extent differentiation in secondary education accounts for the association between social origins and social destinations in adult age. We go beyond the widely applied formal definitions of educational tracking and particularly pay attention to country-specific approaches to educational differentiation. Our main expectation is that once we factor in these particularities, the degree to which educa…
Parental Schooling, Educational Attainment, Skills, and Earnings: A Trend Analysis across Fifteen Countries
Using data on fifteen countries based on the harmonization of IALS and PIAC data, we provide a cross-national analysis of the evolution of the role of educational attainment and cognitive skills as mediators of intergenerational inequalities between 1994 and 2015. We find that the association between parents’ education and children’s earnings is large and highly stable over time in most countries, except for Scandinavian countries, where we detec…
Upper secondary tracks and student competencies: A selection or a causal effect? Evidence from the Italian case
La faiblesse de l'instruction privee en italie: Un Paradoxe
Cet article propose d'analyser le rôle des lycées privés 1 dans le système éducatif italien et plus largement de reconstruire les politiques d'éducation privée. Ces écoles permettent aux enfants des classes supérieures en difficulté scolaire d'obtenir des diplômes, et répondent également à la demande d'éducation religieuse. Malgré l'importance de ces deux fonctions, un immobilisme législatif a prévalu sur cette question. Dans la période récente c…
Dual-Process Theory, Behavioral Research, and the Explanation of Social Inequalities
This article explores how dual-process theory (DPT) can be articulated to build a comprehensive toolbox of mechanisms for explaining social phenomena and, more specifically, social inequalities. I argue that a major strength of Evans and Stanovich's dual-process approach is that it recognizes the heuristic relevance of both automatic and controlled processes and specifies the conditions of their activation, providing a situated perspective on hum…
La faiblesse de l'instruction privee en italie: Un Paradoxe
Cet article propose d'analyser le rôle des lycées privés 1 dans le système éducatif italien et plus largement de reconstruire les politiques d'éducation privée. Ces écoles permettent aux enfants des classes supérieures en difficulté scolaire d'obtenir des diplômes, et répondent également à la demande d'éducation religieuse. Malgré l'importance de ces deux fonctions, un immobilisme législatif a prévalu sur cette question. Dans la période récente c…
Cultural Capital, Ambition and the Explanation of Inequalities in Learning Outcomes: A Comparative Analysis
This article is devoted to the explanation of the influence of social origins on student achievement. Using the data of the Project for International Student Assessment on 25 nations, I show that cultural capital provides a relevant, but far from exhaustive, account of schooling inequalities; furthermore, the explanatory power of Bourdieu's theory seems impressively similar across countries. I also try to argue that, in order to elaborate a more …
Class and Political Preferences in Europe: A Multilevel Analysis of Trends Over Time
This article analyzes trends over time in the relationship between social class and political preferences in EU countries. Multilevel models and logistic regression techniques are employed to examine Eurobarometer data for thirteen nations between 1976 and 2003. In the comparative research addressing the issue of long-term changes in class politics, class voting is the most common indicator. Instead of focussing on electoral behaviour, we analyze…
A Neo-Durkheimian analysis of a new religious movement: The case of Soka Gakkai in Italy
A new look at schooling inequalities in Italy and their trends over time
Overeducation among European University Graduates: A comparative analysis of its incidence and the importance of higher education differentiation
Career Mobility in Italy
This article examines the role of social origins and education for career mobility in contemporary Italy by means of growth curves models. We find that opportunities for career advancement are rather limited and that risks of downward mobility are virtually negligible. Although this picture displays a noticeable degree of stability over time, a moderate increase of career fluidity across cohorts can be detected. Moreover, social origins and educa…
Education, cognitive skills and earnings in comparative perspective
This article investigates to what extent education is rewarded on the labour market because of the cognitive skills it indicates, using IALS data for the US, the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. By empirically distinguishing between general cognitive ability and work-specific cognitive ability, the article shows that the cognitive component of schooling is larger than anticipated by Bowles and Gintis. Instead of around 20 percent of the education…
Some Things Never Change: Gender Segregation in Higher Education across Eight Nations and Three Decades
This article examines the overall strength, the qualitative pattern, and the evolution over time of gender segregation in higher education across eight European countries. Although previous studies have focused primarily on the divide between humanistic and scientific fields, this work indicates that this divide accounts for no more than half of the association between gender and college major. The degree of gender imbalance is highly variable wi…
Do they progress or do they lag behind? Educational attainment of immigrants’ children in Italy: The role played by generational status, country of origin and social class
Education as a positional good: Implications for social inequalities in educational attainment in Italy
Educational equalization stalled? Trends in inequality of educational opportunity between 1930 and 1980 across 26 European nations
This article assesses trends over time in the influence of social origins on educational attainment in 26 European countries. We use a cumulative dataset that merges the European Social Survey (waves 2002–2010), the International Social Survey Programme (1999, 2009) and the European Value Study (2008). Our contribution to the literature is threefold. First, we replicate as closely as possible the previous study by Breen et al. [(2009) ‘Nonpersist…
Is university education worth the investment? The expectations of upper secondary school seniors and the role of family background
This study assesses students' expectations about the profitability of the investment in university education. We consider Italy as a test case and provide fresh high-quality data on students' expectations concerning the costs, economic returns and chances of success of this investment. These are compared with data on the corresponding actual values. We find that the estimates provided by upper secondary school seniors are highly inaccurate, highl…
Social closure, micro-class immobility and the intergenerational reproduction of the upper class: A Comparative Study
This article assesses how processes of social closure enhance intergenerational immobility in the regulated professions and thus promote persistence at the top of the occupational hierarchy. We compare four European countries (GB, Germany, Denmark and Sweden) that differ considerably in their degree of professional regulation and in their broader institutional arrangements. We run log-linear and logistic regression models on a cumulative dataset …
Information Barriers, Social Inequality, and Plans for Higher Education: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Our article assesses the role of information barriers for patterns of educational participation and related social inequalities in plans for Higher Education (HE). Using longitudinal data, we investigate student expectations about the profitability of HE, their evolution over time and their correlation with study plans among Italian high school seniors. We find that student believes are highly inaccurate, systematically biased and poorly updated.…
Nudging gender desegregation: A field experiment on the causal effect of information barriers on gender inequalities in higher education
In this article, we propose and test a novel explanation for gender segregation in Higher Education that focuses on the misperceptions of economic returns to fields of study. We frame this explanation within the literature emphasizing the role of gender-stereotypical preferences and occupational plans, and we argue that counselling activities in school can play a crucial role in either reinforcing or countering the weight of these expressive mech…
Information barriers and social stratification in higher education: Evidence From a Field Experiment
Our contribution assesses the role of information barriers for patterns of participation in Higher Education (HE) and the related social inequalities. For this purpose, we developed a large-scale clustered randomised experiment involving over 9,000 high school seniors from 62 Italian schools. We designed a counseling intervention to correct student misperceptions of the profitability of HE, that is, the costs, economic returns and chances of succ…
Social origins, relative risk aversion and track choice: A field experiment on the role of information biases
This study develops and tests the hypothesis that information biases concerning the perceived extent of risk of educational options fuel social inequalities in track choice. In particular, it is argued that low-educated families are more concerned than college-educated families with the risks of dropout in the academic track, even when their children perform well at school. Moreover, they overestimate the risks of low occupational outcomes associ…
Explaining Social Inequalities in Access to University: A Test of Rational Choice Mechanisms in Italy
This work presents a direct empirical test of the Breen–Goldthorpe (BG) rational choice model applied to social inequalities in access to university in Italy. In particular, we assess to what extent secondary effects of social background on university enrolment are accounted for by families’ economic resources and relative risk aversion (RRA), among a recent cohort of high school graduates. We also assess the role played by students’ numeric expe…
You Better Move On”: Determinants and Labor Market Outcomes of Graduate Migration from Italy
After the Eurozone crisis, out-migration from southern Europe revived, mostly fed by the highly skilled young. Nevertheless, little is known about these new migrants, particularly regarding the determinants and payoffs of their moves. This study delves into the Italian case, drawing on a large representative sample of the 2011 graduation cohort. Multivariate analyses show that young people from upper-class families, foreign citizens, graduates in…
Is vocational education a safety net: The occupational attainment of upper secondary graduates from vocational and academic tracks in Italy
This article assesses the employment and occupational outcomes of upper secondary education graduates from academic and vocational tracks in Italy. In particular, we formulate and test the hypothesis that – contrary to some common expectations – academic graduates outperform vocational graduates at a stage of occupational maturity, even when considering individuals without a tertiary degree. Moreover, we explore differences between tracks by gend…
Introduction: Experimental methods in social stratification research
Cultural Capital in Schools
Cultural capital theory provides a structural explanation for the persistence of educational inequalities in affluent western societies. According to Bourdieu and Passeron, upper classes manage to impose their cultural conventions as superior and more legitimate cultural expressions, which are then transmitted and valued by educational institutions, thus generating a structural advantage for upper‐class children, who enjoy a higher cultural proxi…
Analytical sociology and social stratification research
This chapter argues that analytical sociology (AS) and social stratification research (SSR) are progressively converging towards a shared understanding of the core tasks of sociology: investing major efforts in rigorously establishing interrelated empirical findings; moving beyond empirical data to identify the generative mechanisms via micro-level theories inspired to the principles of methodological individualism; formalizing and testing the pr…
Upper secondary tracks and student competencies: A selection or a causal effect? Evidence from the Italian case
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