Essays about: "Max Thaning"

Found 2 essays containing the words Max Thaning.

1. 1. Multidimensional Intergenerational Inequality: Resource and Gender Specificity : Intergenerational transmission of inequality in education, social class, and income attainment using a sibling correlations approach

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

   Author : Max Thaning; [2018]
   Keywords : Socioeconomic background; social background; social origin; education; social class; income; sibling correlations; resource specificity; gender specificity; intergenerational transmission of inequality; multidimensional inequality.;

   Abstract : This study focuses on intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic resources in multiple dimensions and decomposes the influence of parents’ education, social class, and income in relation to the same outcomes for children as well as the unique impact of mothers and fathers on sons and daughters. In order to minimize measurement error in parental characteristics and life course bias for children, high quality Swedish administrative register data (spanning over 40 years) is utilized. READ MORE

3. 2. The Social Relativity of Higher Education : The Influence of Social Capital on the Probability of Commencing Tertiary Studies

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

   Author : Max Thaning; [2016]
   Keywords : Social capital; educational attainment; inequality; class; stratification.; Socialt kapital; utbildning; ojämlikhet; klass; social stratifiering;

   Abstract : The decision of whether to enter higher education or not is strongly structured by social background, i.e. parents’ social class. This paper examines if and to what extent enrolment in tertiary education also is related to social capital, and furthermore, if social capital can account for differences in social background. READ MORE