Selections and social selectivity on the academic track: A life-course analysis of educational attainment in Germany |
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Authors: | Steffen Hillmert Marita Jacob |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Sociology, University of Tübingen, Wilhelmstr. 36, 72074 Tübingen, Germany;2. MZES, University of Mannheim, 68131 Mannheim, Germany |
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Abstract: | Graduating from university is just the final step of an extended educational career. Sociological transition research has revealed that final educational attainment must be understood as the result of a sequence of successive decisions. With regard to graduation from university, one has to take into account that upper secondary school qualifications are required for enrolling in the first place, and in Germany, the decision for this kind of schooling is at a much earlier age. So where on the long way to the university degree does Germany ‘lose’ its potential academics and in particular its lower class children? |
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Keywords: | Transitions research Educational inequality Educational system Life course |
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