1. Introduction: Social Stratification, Education and the Life Course
Part I: Inequality of Educational Opportunity and Social Mobility
2. The Persistence of Persistent Inequality
Shavit, Yossi; Yaish, Meir & Bar-Haim, Eyal
3. Social Selection in Stockholm Schools
Erikson, Robert
Primary and secondary effects on the transition to upper secondary education
4. Cultural Capital: some critical observations
Goldthorpe, John H.
5. Social mobility and education: a comparative analysis of period and cohort trends in Britain and Germany
Breen, Richard & Luijkx, Ruud
6. Variations on a Theme: Trends in Social Mobility in (West-) Germany for Cohorts Born between 1919 and 1971
Mayer, Karl Ulrich & Aisenbrey, Silke
Part II: The Structure of Social Inequality
7. Disentangling Recent Trends of the Second generation’s structural assimilation in Germany
Kalter, Frank ; Granato, Nadia & Kristen, Cornelia
8. Containers, Europeanisation and Individualisation. An Empirical Assessment of General Describtions of Society
Kohler, Ulrich
9. Lessons from social mobility research - could the index discussion in occupational sex segregation benefit?
Handl, Johann & Steinmetz, Stephanie
10. Linked Lives in Modern Societies. The impact of increasing educational homogamy and the shift towards dual-earner couples on social inequality
Blossfeld, Hans-Peter
Part III: Education and Labour Market
11. Self-employment an Social Stratification
Arum, Richard
12. Youth Unemployment in the Enlarged Europe
Kogan, Irena & Marge Unt , Ellu Saar
13. Education and the transition from school to work in Germany