Effects of class positions of parents on educational attainment of daughters and sons.

From: The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology | Date: November 1, 1998| Author: Curtis, James; Nakhaie, M. Reza | Copyright information

This paper assesses the effects of mothers' and fathers' class positions -

measured in terms of Marxist class categories - on the educational

attainment of male and female offspring in Canada. Our data are from a

national representative sample of Canadians. Multivariate analyses show

that, for offspring of both genders, the class positions of fathers and

mothers influence educational attainment. Where either parent was a member

of the bo...

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