Education, Social Background and Cognitive Ability

Taylor & Francis

Education, Social Background and Cognitive AbilityThe decline of the social\nAuthor(s): Gary N. Marks\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138923225, 978-1138923225\nSynopsis\nAre socioeconomic inequalities in education declining? Is socioeconomic background becoming less important for peoples occupational class or status? How important is cognitive ability for education and later occupational outcomes? How do countries differ in the importance of socioeconomic background for education and work? \n\nGary N. Marks argues that in western industrialized countries, pervasive views that socioeconomic background (or class background) has strong and unchanging relationships with education and later socioeconomic outcomes, resistant to policy and social change, are unfounded. Marks provides a large amount of evidence from many countries showing that the influence of socioeconomic background for education is moderate and mos.