From origin to destination
Subtitle: trends and mechanisms in social stratification research : essays in honour of Walter Müller
By: Stefani Scherer ... [et al.], eds
Contributors: Müller, Walter, 1942-; Scherer, Stefani
Publisher: Campus Verlag; Distribution throughout the world except Germany, Austria and Switzerland by the University of Chicago Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Frankfurt; New York; Chicago, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9783593384115
Subjects: Social stratification; Social stratification -- Research; Social mobility; Social mobility -- Research
Other titles: Trends and mechanisms in social stratification research
Description: An exploration of the techniques and strategies of successful non-state armed forces.
Notes: "Parts of the chapters were presented at a conference to honour Walter Müller in Mannheim, January 26, 2007"--P. [7]

Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: Introduction : from origin to destination / Reinhard Pollak ... [et al.]; title: The persistence of persistent inequality / Yossi Shavit, Meir Yaish, Eyal Bar-Haim; title: Social selection in Stockholm schools : primary and secondary effects on the transition to upper secondary education / Robert Erikson; title: "Cultural capital" : some critical observations / John Goldthorpe; title: Social mobility and education : a comparative analysis of period and cohort trends in Britain and Germany / Richard Breen, Ruud Luijkx; title: Variations on a theme : trends in social mobility in (West) Germany for cohorts born between 1919 and 1971 / Karl Ulrich Mayer, Silke Aisenbrey; title: Self-employment and social stratification / Richard Arum; title: Youth unemployment in the enlarged European Union / Irena Kogan, Marge Unt, Ellu Saar; title: Disentangling recent trends of the second generation's structural assimilation in Germany / Frank Kalter, Nadia Granato, Cornelia Kristen; title: Lessons from social mobility research : could the index discussion in occupational sex segregation benefit? / Johann Handl, Stephanie Steinmetz; title: Linked lives in modern societies : the impact on social inequality of increasing educational homogamy and the shift towards dual-earner couples / Hans-Peter Blossfeld; title: Containers, Europeanisation and individualization : empirical implications of general descriptions of society / Ulrich Kohler