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Sociology of stratification

the finding that social origin matters less for occupational status among college graduates.

In sociology of stratification, education as the great equalizer refers to the finding that social origin matters less for occupational status among college graduates. This meaning comes from Hout (1988) in American Journal of Sociology.[1]

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References

  1. Hout, M. (1988). More Universalism, Less Structural Mobility: The American Occupational Structure in the 1980s. American Journal of Sociology, 93(6), 1358-1400. https://doi.org/10.1086/228904

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