Britain's rich kids do better than ever.
Observes that class advantage has grown in Britain since the 1950s. Current perceptions of class; Suggestion that, far from being a meritocracy, Britain has become a country of castes; Findings of a series of studies which took two big surveys from the past half-century which followed newborn babie...
| Publicado en: | New Statesman Vol. 134; no. 4732; pp. 31 - 33 |
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New Statesman Ltd.
3/21/2005
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| Sumario: | Observes that class advantage has grown in Britain since the 1950s. Current perceptions of class; Suggestion that, far from being a meritocracy, Britain has become a country of castes; Findings of a series of studies which took two big surveys from the past half-century which followed newborn babies through schooling and into adulthood; View that there are few signs that the separation of Britain into distinct classes of wealth and relative poverty is slowing down; How Labour's efforts to redistribute wealth have slowed the march of inequality; Economic and cultural actors influencing social mobility; Suggestion that the unintended consequences of educational egalitarianism have combined with wider cultural changes which were profoundly hostile to the working class; Topic of education. |
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