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class ceiling: a standalone construct

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Sociology of stratification

barriers that keep people from working-class backgrounds out of, and lower paid within, elite occupations.

In sociology of stratification, class ceiling refers to barriers that keep people from working-class backgrounds out of, and lower paid within, elite occupations. This meaning comes from Friedman (2015) in The Sociological Review.[1]

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References

Friedman, S., Laurison, D., & Miles, A. (2015). Breaking the ‘Class’ Ceiling? Social Mobility into Britain's Elite Occupations. The Sociological Review, 63(2), 259-289. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-954x.12283

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