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Browsing SPS Articles by Author "BREEN, Richard"
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Title:Class, Mobility and Merit - the Experience of Two British Birth Cohorts
Author(s):BREEN, Richard; GOLDTHORPE, John H.Date:2001Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The controversial issue of 'meritocracy' can be most productively addressed if it is treated as one of direction of change over time: i.e. whether individual merit, understood in terms of ability, effort, or educational ...
Title:Class Inequality and Social Mobility in Northern Ireland, 1973 to 1996
Author(s):BREEN, RichardDate:2000Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Data from 1973 and 1996 are used to examine changes in the class structures and patterns of social mobility of Catholic and Protestant men in Northern Ireland. Specifically, this study investigates whether the disadvantaged ...
Title:Analyzing Educational Careers: A Multinomial Transition Model
Author(s):BREEN, Richard; JONSSON, Jan O.Date:2000Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The logit model of educational transitions has become standard in research in educational stratification. One limitation of the model, however is the assumption that individuals progress through the educational system in ...
Title:Class Inequality and Meritocracy: A Critique of Saunders and An Alternative Analysis
Author(s):BREEN, Richard; GOLDTHORPE, John H.Date:1999Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Saunders' recent work claiming that contemporary British society is to a large extent 'meritocratic' is criticized on conceptual and technical grounds. A reanalysis of the National Child Development Study data-set, used ...
Title:Is the National State the Appropriate Geographical Unit for Class Analysis?
Author(s):BREEN, Richard; ROTTMAN, D. B.Date:1998Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Contemporary class analysis takes the national state as its unit of analysis, This convention could be challenged on at least two grounds. On the one hand, the national state might be seen as too gross an aggregation that ...