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dc.contributor.authorHansen, Marianne Nordli
dc.contributor.authorStrømme, Thea Bertnes
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-24T14:51:04Z
dc.date.available2022-03-24T14:51:04Z
dc.date.created2021-05-07T15:38:12Z
dc.date.issued2021-05-07
dc.identifier.citationBritish Journal of Sociology. 2021, 72 (3), 651-671.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0007-1315
dc.identifier.issn1468-4446
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2987460
dc.description.abstractThis article explores the relationship between social class and educational achievement measured by grades among Norwegian law graduates over a span of 200 years. We argue that class inequalities may arise due to mechanisms favouring ‘insiders’, meaning students whose families have legal backgrounds. Alternatively, a broader category of students with origins in educated or elite families could also enjoy special advantages. Our results indicate that there were insignificant class inequalities in grades before the beginning of the 20th century, when they first appeared, and that class inequalities increased to some extent subsequently. Graduates with origins from families with legal backgrounds or origins in the cultural upper class tend to be awarded the highest grades and those with farming or working-class origins tend to be awarded the lowest grades. Inequalities according to class origin can be explained only to a limited extent by performance at secondary school. Unlike class origin, however, the impact of grades at secondary school appears to be highly stable over time. We ask whether mechanisms favouring legal ‘insiders’ may have become less important over time, whereas the impact of cultural capital may have increased.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherWileyen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesBritish Journal of Sociology;Volume 72, Issue 3
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.no*
dc.subjectCultural capitalen_US
dc.subjectEducational performancesen_US
dc.subjectProfessionsen_US
dc.subjectSocial classesen_US
dc.subjectSocial closuresen_US
dc.titleHistorical change in an elite profession—Class origins and grades among law graduates over 200 yearsen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holder© 2021 The Authorsen_US
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cristin.fulltextoriginal
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12852
dc.identifier.cristin1908836
dc.source.journalBritish Journal of Sociologyen_US
dc.source.volume72en_US
dc.source.issue3en_US
dc.source.pagenumber651-671en_US
dc.relation.projectNorges forskningsråd: 275249en_US


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