Inga Steinberg

Biographic Data

ID333339
NAMEInga Steinberg
GIVEN NAMESInga
FAMILY NAMESteinberg
SIGNATURESTEINBERG I
AFFILIATIONSDepartment of Social Policy and Intervention Nuffield College University of Oxford Oxford UK
ORCID0000-0002-1964-7897
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS10
AUTHOR COUNT4
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • The Social Origins and Education of the British Civil Service Elite , 1945–2022

    Open AccessE Bukodi, John H Goldthorpe et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration2025References: 10

    We provide a fuller account than previously available of the extent of change in the social backgrounds of the British civil service elite from 1945 onwards. We consider our findings in relation to questions of meritocracy in recruitment to the elite and of the representativeness of the elite of the population at large. We also address the question of whether a “generalist” orientation persists within the service. We show that there have been cha…

  • Social stratification in science: The ultra-elite in the UK

    Open AccessE Bukodi, John H Goldthorpe et al.ARTICLEEuropean Societies2024References: 6

    We start out from Harriet Zuckerman’s study of the US scientific ultra-elite of Nobel laureates, in which Robert Merton's idea of ‘Matthew effects’ as a key mechanism in the creation of social inequalities was first introduced. We then consider two issues arising from critical commentary on this study by Elisabeth Crawford, a historian of science. First, how far can a scientific ultra-elite be shown to exist as a collectivity that is socially dis…

  • Continuing complexity: The university careers of a scientific elite in relation to their class origins and schooling

    Open AccessE Bukodi, John H Goldthorpe et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology2023Cited by: 4References: 10

    We report on continuing research on the UK scientific elite, intended to illustrate a proposed new approach to elite studies and based on a prosopography of Fellows of the Royal Society born from 1900. We extend analyses previously reported of Fellows' social origins and secondary schooling to take in their university careers as under- and postgraduates. The composite term 'Oxbridge', as often applied in elite studies, is called into question, as…

  • The social origins and schooling of a scientific elite: Fellows of the Royal Society born from 1900

    Open AccessE Bukodi, John H Goldthorpe et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology2022Cited by: 6References: 19

    We present an analysis of the social composition of the UK scientific elite, as represented by Fellows of the Royal Society, in terms of Fellows' social class origins and type of secondary schooling. From various sources, we have assembled data for 1691 Fellows, representing 80% of our target population of all Fellows born from 1900 onwards whose scientific careers were spent predominantly in the UK. We find that while these elite scientists come…