Cultural Capital and Political Arithmetic
A response to the review symposium on Origins and Destinations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11635393 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A F Heath (0000-0002-3731-587X, University of Oxford, corresponding author), A H Halsey (University of Oxford), J M Ridge (University of Oxford) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 87-92 |
| Publication date | 1982-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0142-5692 • E-ISSN: 1465-3346 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0142569820030107 |
| OpenAlex | W2003197080 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 1 |
Theoretical and methodological insularity' sounds bad. To be imprisoned in a 'fossilised tradition' sounds worse. We are'clearly doomed for extinction; an endangered species threatened by a disappearing habitat or hungry predators. We trust that Martyn Hammersley will set up the appropriate conservation measures immediately. Our own view of-the future for the 'political arithmetic' tradition is not quite so gloomy, however. We see it as a developing tradition, evolving new techniques of analysis, hybridising with related species and occupying a distinct and secure ecological niche. To put the matter less metaphorically, we believe that the large-scale random sample on which Origins and Destinations was based is ideally suited to answering a specific and limited, but nonetheless important set of questions about men (we apologise for our omission of women). These questions by no means exhaust the subject-matter of the sociology of education, and there are some (equally important) for which they would be quite inappropriate. Here we suspect we really stand on common ground with Martyn Hammersley. It is rather that he has misunderstood the topology. There are however other points where we are quite clearly in disagreement. First, take the charge of insularity. Anyone who compares our work with earlier examples of the political arithmetic tradition in Britain (Glass's work for example) is bound to notice changes in statistical technique and conceptualisation. In particular we have been influenced by the methods of data analysis popularised by Blau and Duncan and by Jencks; we have found Boudon's way of conceptualising the educational system a helpful one; and we have also made innovations of our own such as the
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2014 (25) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |