Primary and Secondary Effects in Class Differentials in Educational Attainment.
In this article we start from Boudon's important, but still surprisingly neglected, distinction between 'primary' and 'secondary' effects in the creation of class differentials in educational attainment. Primary effects are all those, whether of a genetic or socio-cultural kind, that are expressed v...
| Publicado en: | Acta Sociologica (Sage Publications, Ltd.) Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 211 - 230 |
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