Against the Odds? Social Class and Social Justice in Industrial Societies

by Marshall, Gordon; Swift, Adam; Roberts, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780198292401
• ISBN10: 0198292406
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-07-10
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

What is the relation between social class and social justice? This is currently a matter of public as well as academic interest. In this compelling new study the authors bring together recent developments in normative thinking about social justice with new empirical findings about educational attainment and social mobility. The result is a path-breaking contribution to the study of class and justice, one that will be of interest to sociologists and political theorists for years to come.

Author Biography

Stephen Roberts was formerly Research Officer at Nuffield College, Oxford

Table of Contents

Note on the Authors	ix	(1)
List of Tables	x	(3)
List of Figures	xiii
1. Introduction	1	(6)
2. Social Justice	7	(14)
3. Social Class	21	(15)
4. Class Mobility	36	(34)
5. Education: Patterns	70	(30)
6. Education: Trends	106	(27)
7. Meritocracy	133	(25)
8. Social Justice Revisited	158	(30)
9. Conclusion	188	(3)
Appendix A. Technical Details of Data-Sets	191	(1)
Appendix B. Guide to Statistical Techniques	192	(9)
Appendix C. Constructing Goldthorpe Classes	201	(15)
Appendix D. Coding Educational Attainment	216	(3)
Appendix E. Social Justice and Non-vertical Social Mobility	219	(3)
Appendix F. The Ideology of Meritocratic Socialism	222	(7)
Appendix G. The Class and Gender Debate	229	(7)
Appendix H. The Featherman-Jones-Hauser Hypothesis	236	(5)
Appendix I. Status Attainment and Meritocracy	241	(3)
Appendix J. Popular Beliefs about Meritocracy	244	(6)
References	250	(13)
Index	263