Rags to riches? : social origin-based stratification among early career college graduates
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the consequences of low social origins among young college-educated adults. I argue that the relevance of social origins among college graduates grew over the past thirty years and, among recent cohorts, low social origins negatively influence early career outcomes. In the first empirical chapter of my dissertation I examine what the relationship between social origins and early career economic outcomes looks like and how it has changed over time. Next I examine specific differences in early career outcomes within one cohort of college graduates and the extent to which they can be explained by demographic or other characteristics. The third empirical chapter explores differences across institutions in the relationship between origins and economic outcomes. I then suggest that these relationships cannot be explained by academic trajectories or institutional differences and suggest several paths forward for research. Collectively, these analyses illustrate that college has become less of an equalizer among adults early in their career.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Rodriguez, Natassia |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Sociology. |
| Primary advisor | Grusky, David B |
| Thesis advisor | Grusky, David B |
| Thesis advisor | Jackson, Michelle Victoria |
| Thesis advisor | Jiménez, Tomás R. (Tomás Roberto), 1975- |
| Advisor | Jackson, Michelle Victoria |
| Advisor | Jiménez, Tomás R. (Tomás Roberto), 1975- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Natassia Rodriguez. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Sociology. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2016. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2016 by Natassia Theresa Rodriguez
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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