Cognitive skills and noncognitive traits and behaviors in stratification processes

G Farkas - Annual review of sociology, 2003 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract I review studies of the roles played by cognitive skills and noncognitive traits and
behaviors in stratification processes. were among the first to argue that noncognitive traits …

Do skills and behaviors in high school matter? The contribution of noncognitive factors in explaining differences in educational attainment and earnings

C Lleras - Social science research, 2008 - Elsevier
Using data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study (NELS), this study examines
the unique and collective impact of cognitive skills and noncognitive behaviors in high …

Education, cognitive skill, and labor force outcomes

AC Kerckhoff, SW Raudenbush, E Glennie - Sociology of Education, 2001 - JSTOR
This article compares the degree to which educational attainment and cognitive skill,
individually and together, serve to explain labor force outcomes (occupational status and …

[图书][B] Education, social background and cognitive ability: The decline of the social

GN Marks - 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
Are socioeconomic inequalities in education declining? Is socioeconomic background
becoming less important for people's occupational class or status? How important is …

[图书][B] Meritocracy, cognitive ability, and the sources of occupational success

RM Hauser - 2002 - ssc.wisc.edu
Despite occasional references to Michael Young's (1958) satyrical essay, The Rise of the
Meritocracy, and periodic public interest in the place of intelligence in society, students of …

Personality traits and occupational attainment

M Jackson - European Sociological Review, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Historically, sociologists have paid little attention to the role of non-cognitive characteristics
in occupational attainment. This is in sharp contrast to the relatively large amount of …

Occupational status, education, and social mobility in the meritocracy

RM Hauser, JR Warren, MH Huang… - … and economic inequality, 2000 - degruyter.com
IN THIS CHAPTER we use indexes of the socioeconomic standing of occupaн tions to
measure trends and differentials in intergenerational social mobility and in the effects of …

The pivotal role of education in the association between ability and social class attainment: A look across three generations

W Johnson, CE Brett, IJ Deary - Intelligence, 2010 - Elsevier
Previous studies have established that family social background and individual mental
ability and educational attainment contribute to adult social class attainment. We propose …

[图书][B] Non-cognitive skills and factors in educational attainment

MS Khine, S Areepattamannil - 2016 - books.google.com
This volume addresses questions that lie at the core of research into education. It examines
the way in which the institutional embeddedness and the social and ethnic composition of …

Verbal ability and socioeconomic success: A trend analysis

RM Hauser, MH Huang - Social Science Research, 1997 - Elsevier
Along with other recent analyses of American social structure, Herrnstein and Murray'sThe
Bell Curveoffers several hypotheses about the increasing centrality of cognitive ability in …