Aims to inform students, scholars, and educators about the complex processes and factors that promote or impede education's potential to enhance individual advancement within the socioeconomic structure of a late-industrialized country within the context of modern capitalism.

Autorentext

Spyros Themelis is Lecturer in Education at Middlesex University, UK. His publications adopt a critical perspective on issues of education and meritocracy, social mobility, Roma/Gypsy/Travellers and minorities, and social and educational policy. He has published in various journals, including the British Journal of Sociology of Education, Journal of Youth Studies, Research in Comparative and International Education, and Romani Studies.

Inhalt
PART I Social Stratification and Class Analysis Social Mobility: Types, Trends and Critique The Political Economy, Social Stratification and Class Formation in Postwar Greece Education, Social Mobility, and the Question Of Meritocracy PART II Contextualizing the Case Study Quantitative Aspects of Social Mobility Occupational Trajectories and Experiences of Mobility Educational Experiences and Pathways to Social Mobility Alternative Pathways to Social Mobility: The Role of Emigration, Marriage and Political Patronage Epilogue/Discussion Appendix 1: The Major Political, Economic and Social Events in Greece, 1936-2011 Appendix 2: The Register Appendix 3: Quantitative Data Analysis