In this article, we draw on the theoretical and empirical literature to name what appear to be
core dimensions of successful young adult development. We also describe some possible …

Graduate and professional education play an increasingly important role in economic
inequality and elite formation in the United States, but sociologists have not subjected …

A quarter century ago, an important finding in stratification research showed that the
intergenerational occupational association was much weaker among college graduates …

In the 20th century, childhood and adolescence came to be increasingly regarded as special
periods of development in which children were provided extra support to learn and develop …

In the emotional public debate about women and work, conventional wisdom holds that
middle-class women" choose" whether or not to work, while working class" need" to work …

The consensus in the empirical literature on political participation is that education positively
correlates with political participation. Theoretical explanations posit that education confers …

The interconnection among social class reproduction, human capital production, and
national economic development is a topic of major cross-national comparative inquiry. By …

Over the past decades an authoritarian–libertarian value dimension has become
increasingly important to electoral behaviour across western countries. Previous analyses …

In this article, the authors assess why educational attainment is associated with many
diverse social outcomes. Their multivariate models incorporate linear (years of schooling) …

This chapter reviews a wide array of research on the impact of educational attainment on
quality of life. Adopting Cummins'(Soc Indi Res 38: 303–328, 1996; Assessing quality of life …