How has educational expansion changed the necessary and sufficient conditions for achieving professional, managerial and technical class positions in britain? a configurational analysis

Sociological Research Online

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 29-47

  Cooper, Barry ^a   Glaesser, Judith ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boolean methods; Counterfactual models; Education; Gender; Meritocracy; QCA; Social class

Indexed keywords

EID: 46749158406     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13607804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5153/sro.1703     Document Type: Article

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