PROCESS: The Role of Educational Structure and Content in the Process of Social Mobility
Fellowship Seminar
Series: First Seminar The Value of Longitudinal Data: Using the British Cohort Studies to Understand Women’s Employment from a Lifecourse Perspective Dr Jane Elliott 29 June 2006 |
This paper will examine the structure of cultural
taste and participation in the UK using an ESRC funded national survey
conducted in 2003-04. Professor Savage will show how the cultural
field remains highly polarised, not along the lines of a split between
'high' and 'low' or 'popular' culture, but between the 'multiply engaged',
and the 'disengaged'. The nature of this cleavage and its relations
to patterns of mobility and social stratification will be examined. |
Fellowship Seminar
Series: Second Seminar Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion Professor Mike Savage 7 November 2006 |
Under the auspices of the project, Cristina
Iannelli and Lindsay Paterson, with the administrative assistance
of Moira Burke, organised a one-day seminar for academics who have
a specialist interest in education and social mobility. This seminar
was held in Edinburgh University in October 2004 and encompassed substantive
theoretical and methodological issues as well as empirical results
in social mobility studies. David Raffe (Moray House School of Education,
Edinburgh University) chaired the seminar and the speakers were John
Goldthorpe (Nuffield College, Oxford), Richard Breen (Nuffield College,
Oxford), Chris Whelan (Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin),
Cristina Iannelli and Lindsay Paterson (both from Moray House School
of Education, Edinburgh University). The seminar was an important
opportunity for the organisers and the participants to discuss some
of the main findings of the project and to debate current issues in
social mobility studies in the national and international arenas. |