Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / Buscou-se, nesse estudo, quantificar e avaliar a homogamia, a heterogamia e as barreiras de cruzamento ao matrimônio via escolaridade (anos de estudo) e origem social (categorias ocupacionais dos pais). As tendências temporais desses padrões também foram examinadas. Analisou-se, ainda, a associação entre escolaridade dos maridos, escolaridade das esposas (status realizado), origem social dos maridos e origem social das esposas (status atribuído). Esse trabalho teve o intuito também de discutir o viés de seletividade marital segundo os diferenciais sociais (anos de estudo e origem social). Para isso, foram analisados parâmetros que mostram como se configuram os padrões de nupcialidade (idade média ao casar e celibato definitivo), bem como foram examinados os determinantes da união sob a perspectiva de três níveis de fatores condicionantes (nível das características individuais, nível do status atribuído e nível do status realizado). Verificou-se que as mulheres com alta escolaridade, no Brasil, permanecem num período maior na condição de solteiras (alta idade média ao casar e alto celibato definitivo). Os homens com alta escolaridade também apresentaram uma alta idade média ao casar, entretanto, o casamento demonstrou ser praticamente universal para esse segmento. Os resultados também mostraram que o aumento de um ano na idade dos indivíduos elevam a chance de união em aproximadamente 5%. Ter uma baixa escolaridade também aumenta a chance dos indivíduos se casarem. A variável origem social apresentou um comportamento dúbio ao ser incorporada no modelo com a variável anos de estudo. Constatou-se que há uma alta proporção de uniões homogâmicas por escolaridade. Para efetuar uma análise adequada das tendências temporais na seletividade marital foi proposto modelos log-lineares em que a dimensão do tempo foi incorporada. O ajustamento dos modelos indicou que a interpretação mais plausível para as tendências temporais na seletividade marital por escolaridade é a da estabilidade dos parâmetros indicativos das propensões homogâmicas. Em relação a análise da seletividade marital e origem social os resultados mostraram que a maior proporção de homogamia pôde ser verificada entre os casais que tinham como origem social a categoria de pequenos proprietários rurais. A conclusão mais plausível ao se analisar os modelos que consideraram as tendências temporais é que a variação temporal dos parâmetros indicativos da seletividade marital por origem social é a característica mais forte dos dados analisados. Ao analisar as chances relativas oriundas desse modelo observou-se que as barreiras de origem social de curta distância (entre segmentos de origem social próximos) são as mais fáceis de serem transpostas. Ao passo que as barreiras mais difíceis de serem ultrapassadas estão concentradas nos dois extremos. Verificou-se, ainda, que as associações entre as interações escolaridade do marido e escolaridade da esposa e origem social do marido e origem social da esposa não são independentes. Assim, pode-se presumir que a origem social (status atribuído) continua influenciando a escolha conjugal mesmo quando se leva em consideração o status realizado (escolaridade dos cônjuges) / This study attempted to quantify and evaluate homogamy, heterogamy and the crossing barriers to marriage regarding schooling (years of study) and social background (parental occupational category). Time tendencies present in these patterns were also considered as well as the association between husbands schooling, wives schooling (status held), husbands social origin and wives social origin (status assigned). This thesis also aimed to discuss the marital selectivity bias according to social differentials (years of study and social origin). For this, parameters that show how marriage patterns are configured (mean age to marry and permanent celibacy) were analyzed. It was also considered the marriage determinant factors under three conditions (individual characteristics, level of assigned status and level of status held). It was found that women with high educational level, in Brazil, remain unmarried for a longer period, since they usually get married on their late middle ages and show a high permanent celibacy). Men with high educational levels also showed a high mean age to marry, however, marriage proved to be virtually universal for this segment. The results also showed that the increase of one year in the age of individuals raises the chance of marriage in approximately 5%. Having a low educational level also increases the chance of people to get married. The social origin variable demonstrated a dubious behavior when incorporated into the model with the years of study variable. A high proportion of homogamic unions for schooling was found. To perform an adequate analysis of time tendencies in marital selectivity log-linear models were proposed and time dimension was incorporated. The models adjustment indicated that the most plausible interpretation for time tendencies in marital selectivity for schooling is the indicative parameters of stability regarding homogamic tendencies. Considering the analysis of marital and social origin selectivity results showed that the highest proportion of homogamy could be observed between couples who came from rural smallholders family. The most plausible conclusion when analyzing the time tendencies models is that the temporal variation of indicative parameters of marital selectivity by social origin is the strongest feature throughout the analyzed data. When analyzing the relative chances from this model it was observed that the short distance social origin barriers (between close social origin segments) are the easiest ones to be transposed. While the hardest barriers to overcome are concentrated in the two extremes. It was also found that the associations between the interactions husband and wife schooling and husband and wifes social origin and social background are not independent. In this way, it can be supposed that the social background (status assigned) continues influencing the choice of marriage even when it takes into account the status held (schooling of spouses)

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / Buscou-se, nesse estudo, quantificar e avaliar a homogamia, a heterogamia e as barreiras de cruzamento ao matrimônio via escolaridade (anos de estudo) e origem social (categorias ocupacionais dos pais). As tendências temporais desses padrões também foram examinadas. Analisou-se, ainda, a associação entre escolaridade dos maridos, escolaridade das esposas (status realizado), origem social dos maridos e origem social das esposas (status atribuído). Esse trabalho teve o intuito também de discutir o viés de seletividade marital segundo os diferenciais sociais (anos de estudo e origem social). Para isso, foram analisados parâmetros que mostram como se configuram os padrões de nupcialidade (idade média ao casar e celibato definitivo), bem como foram examinados os determinantes da união sob a perspectiva de três níveis de fatores condicionantes (nível das características individuais, nível do status atribuído e nível do status realizado). Verificou-se que as mulheres com alta escolaridade, no Brasil, permanecem num período maior na condição de solteiras (alta idade média ao casar e alto celibato definitivo). Os homens com alta escolaridade também apresentaram uma alta idade média ao casar, entretanto, o casamento demonstrou ser praticamente universal para esse segmento. Os resultados também mostraram que o aumento de um ano na idade dos indivíduos elevam a chance de união em aproximadamente 5%. Ter uma baixa escolaridade também aumenta a chance dos indivíduos se casarem. A variável origem social apresentou um comportamento dúbio ao ser incorporada no modelo com a variável anos de estudo. Constatou-se que há uma alta proporção de uniões homogâmicas por escolaridade. Para efetuar uma análise adequada das tendências temporais na seletividade marital foi proposto modelos log-lineares em que a dimensão do tempo foi incorporada. O ajustamento dos modelos indicou que a interpretação mais plausível para as tendências temporais na seletividade marital por escolaridade é a da estabilidade dos parâmetros indicativos das propensões homogâmicas. Em relação a análise da seletividade marital e origem social os resultados mostraram que a maior proporção de homogamia pôde ser verificada entre os casais que tinham como origem social a categoria de pequenos proprietários rurais. A conclusão mais plausível ao se analisar os modelos que consideraram as tendências temporais é que a variação temporal dos parâmetros indicativos da seletividade marital por origem social é a característica mais forte dos dados analisados. Ao analisar as chances relativas oriundas desse modelo observou-se que as barreiras de origem social de curta distância (entre segmentos de origem social próximos) são as mais fáceis de serem transpostas. Ao passo que as barreiras mais difíceis de serem ultrapassadas estão concentradas nos dois extremos. Verificou-se, ainda, que as associações entre as interações escolaridade do marido e escolaridade da esposa e origem social do marido e origem social da esposa não são independentes. Assim, pode-se presumir que a origem social (status atribuído) continua influenciando a escolha conjugal mesmo quando se leva em consideração o status realizado (escolaridade dos cônjuges) / This study attempted to quantify and evaluate homogamy, heterogamy and the crossing barriers to marriage regarding schooling (years of study) and social background (parental occupational category). Time tendencies present in these patterns were also considered as well as the association between husbands schooling, wives schooling (status held), husbands social origin and wives social origin (status assigned). This thesis also aimed to discuss the marital selectivity bias according to social differentials (years of study and social origin). For this, parameters that show how marriage patterns are configured (mean age to marry and permanent celibacy) were analyzed. It was also considered the marriage determinant factors under three conditions (individual characteristics, level of assigned status and level of status held). It was found that women with high educational level, in Brazil, remain unmarried for a longer period, since they usually get married on their late middle ages and show a high permanent celibacy). Men with high educational levels also showed a high mean age to marry, however, marriage proved to be virtually universal for this segment. The results also showed that the increase of one year in the age of individuals raises the chance of marriage in approximately 5%. Having a low educational level also increases the chance of people to get married. The social origin variable demonstrated a dubious behavior when incorporated into the model with the years of study variable. A high proportion of homogamic unions for schooling was found. To perform an adequate analysis of time tendencies in marital selectivity log-linear models were proposed and time dimension was incorporated. The models adjustment indicated that the most plausible interpretation for time tendencies in marital selectivity for schooling is the indicative parameters of stability regarding homogamic tendencies. Considering the analysis of marital and social origin selectivity results showed that the highest proportion of homogamy could be observed between couples who came from rural smallholders family. The most plausible conclusion when analyzing the time tendencies models is that the temporal variation of indicative parameters of marital selectivity by social origin is the strongest feature throughout the analyzed data. When analyzing the relative chances from this model it was observed that the short distance social origin barriers (between close social origin segments) are the easiest ones to be transposed. While the hardest barriers to overcome are concentrated in the two extremes. It was also found that the associations between the interactions husband and wife schooling and husband and wifes social origin and social background are not independent. In this way, it can be supposed that the social background (status assigned) continues influencing the choice of marriage even when it takes into account the status held (schooling of spouses)

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This thesis consists of four self-contained essays in the sociology of educational stratification. Study I draws on newly collected survey data to assess the biases that arise in estimating socioeconomic differences in achievement when relying on parent and student reported data on social background. The main finding is that student reports on parental occupation overcome both the problem of misreporting that plagues other data collected from children, and the equally damaging problem of selective nonresponse among parents. Conditional estimates of ethnic disparities are relatively unaffected by these issues. Study II deals with student survey reports on the number of books in the home. A prominent string of authors has favoured this variable as a social background proxy over parental occupation or education based on its strong associations with educational outcomes. The paper applies various methods to large-scale student assessment data to show that these associations rest not on higher reliability as commonly assumed, but rather on two types of endogeneity. Low achievers accumulate less books and are also prone to underestimate their number. Study III uses survey and register data to study immigrant parents' education and its associations with children's achievement in recent Swedish cohorts. Two aspects of parental education are distinguished: the absolute years of schooling and a relative place in the source country's educational distribution. Parents' absolute education turns out to predict children's test scores and grades, whereas relative education is a better predictor of their educational aspirations. The result is of some consequence for studies seeking to assess ethnic disparities net of observed parental characteristics. Study IV extends the positional approach of Study III to understand immigrants' self-perceived social status and income satisfaction in European countries. Those higher educated by origin country than host country standards make more dismal assessments of their current situation than do other immigrants in otherwise similar circumstances. This is attributed to a social contrast mechanism and argued to be of relevance in understanding longer-term patterns of social and economic integration, including educational decisions made by the second generation. / Avhandlingen består av fyra fristående studier som alla berör utbildning och social stratifiering. Studie I undersöker med nyinsamlade enkätdata hur sociala skillnader i skolprestation riskerar att felskattas med bakgrundsuppgifter inhämtade från föräldrar respektive elever. Den viktigaste slutsatsen är att elevuppgifter om föräldrars yrke undviker mycket av den felrapportering som behäftar andra elevsvar, liksom det utbredda problemet med selektivt bortfall bland föräldrar. Villkorliga skattningar av etniska skillnader är relativt opåverkade av dessa metodproblem. Studie II granskar elevers uppgifter om antalet böcker i hemmet. En betydande litteratur har förespråkat denna variabel som ett mått på klasstillhörighet framför föräldrars yrke eller utbildning på grundval av starka samband med elevers studieresultat. Uppsatsen tillämpar en rad metoder på data från en internationell kunskapsutvärdering och finner att sambandens styrka inte vilar på högre tillförlitlighet som tidigare förmodats, utan på endogenitetsproblem av två slag. Lågpresterande elever ackumulerar färre böcker och är dessutom benägna att underskatta deras antal. Studie III använder enkät- och registerdata för att belysa utlandsfödda föräldrars utbildning och dess samband med prestationer bland svenska skolbarn. Två aspekter av utbildningsbakgrund särskiljs: föräldrars utbildningsår samt deras relativa placering i ursprungslandets fördelning. Absolut utbildning visar sig predicera elevers testresultat och betyg, medan relativ utbildning är en bättre prediktor för barns aspirationer. Resultatet är av betydelse för studier av etniska skillnader där statistisk kontroll görs för observerbara föräldraegenskaper. Studie IV tillämpar den positionella ansatsen från Studie III för att förstå utlandsföddas självupplevda status och inkomsttillfredsställelse i europeiska länder. Migranter som är mer högutbildade med ursprungslandets mått mätt än värdlandets tenderar att ha en mer negativ bild av sin nuvarande situation än andra i objektivt liknande omständigheter. Detta kan förstås i termer av sociala referensramar och framhålls som relevant i tolkningen av långsiktiga sociala och ekonomiska integrationsmönster, inklusive de utbildningsval som efterföljande generationer gör. / <p>At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 2: Manuscript. Paper 3: Manuscript. Paper 4: Manuscript.</p>

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:32:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Nelson Leite Galvao.pdf: 1503542 bytes, checksum: 31b3eb81c54b4abcc9adcc234ab01aa3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-02-14 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This research is inserted on the theme called success and failure among popular groups and aims at evidencing the social conditions of students who were approved on the 2009 placement test of Embraer School, in São José dos Campos - SP, based on Bourdieu s social, cultural and economical capital concepts (1998, 2004 e 2009), as well as on Lahire s family configurations concept (1997), aspects that might have contributed for their successful school trajectories. This study may be characterized, under methodological aspects, as being empirical with qualitative analysis. In order to select the study subjects, our starting point was the 3,949 elementary public school students who had enrolled for Embraer school placement test in 2009/2010 class. These 3,949 students were divided into two groups: the registered and the approved ones. From the 200 students classified in the approved group we have chosen four students to be interviewed. The results confirm the hypothesis revealing that Embraer school students, although having come from public schools, have a social, economical and cultural condition that make them different from the popular classes, what makes them succeed on the placement test of that school. Besides that, there are family configurations that determine the success on the placement test for Embraer High School, of student from less favored social origins / Esta pesquisa está inserida na temática sucesso/fracasso escolar em meios populares e tem como objetivo evidenciar as condições de origem social dos alunos que foram aprovados no exame de seleção de 2009 da Escola da Embraer, em São José dos Campos - SP, a partir dos conceitos de capital social, capital cultural e capital econômico de Bourdieu (1998, 2004 e 2009), bem como o conceito de configurações familiares de Lahire (1997), aspectos que podem ter contribuído para sua trajetória escolar de sucesso. Este estudo pode ser caracterizado, em termos metodológicos, de natureza empírica com análise qualitativa. Para seleção dos sujeitos, deste estudo, partiu-se dos 3.949 alunos egressos do ensino fundamental da escola pública que se inscreveram para o exame da escola da Embraer, no ano de 2009/turma 2010. Esses 3.949 alunos foram divididos em dois grupos: inscritos e aprovados. Do grupo de 200 aprovados foram escolhidos 04 alunos para serem entrevistados. Os resultados obtidos confirmam as hipóteses, revelando que os alunos da Escola da Embraer, embora sejam alunos oriundos da escola pública, têm uma condição social, econômica e cultural que os diferencia das classes populares, o que lhes possibilita sucesso no exame de seleção da referida escola. Além disso, existem configurações familiares que determinam o sucesso no exame de seleção, para o Ensino Médio da Embraer, de alunos de origem social menos favorecida

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:33:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SUELENE REGINA DONOLA MENDONCA.pdf: 3537970 bytes, checksum: 5b764a198a99689e51ef43812e55fba0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-11-29 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The aim of this study, whose field research was held in 2006, is to investigate the socio-educational trajectories of deaf adults with ages between 19 and 69 years old, from different social layers in Pindamonhangaba and Tremembé two municipal districts in São Paulo that have experienced school or not, but who are not there nowadays. We have tried to understand, from the own individuals or their relatives reports, how these trajectories were build, i.e., the marks, the singularities and the factors that have influenced them. The present investigation flows into studies developed by Bueno (1993, 1997, 2001, 2004, 2007), Soares (1999, 2004), Cukierkom (1996) and Oliveira (2007), which are based on the perspective that deafness is a biological distinctive mark, but that the social construction of the individual is determined by different factors, such as psychological, biological, social, environmental, political or economical that must be considered when we analyze the social destination of the individual. The theoretical basis of this study is the contribution of Bernard Charlot (2000), Bernard Lahire (1997, 2004) and Pierre Bourdieu (2003) in a way to understand the peculiarities that are present on the social relationships based on the cultural and social capital as well as their origins and their implications on the process of being a member of school and the individuals social destiny. The procedures used for data collect were the interviews with six deaf adults based on three fundamental orders their lives in the family, at school and in society. The analysis revealed to us that, besides the deafness mark, four other factors interfered on their trajectories: a) the origin capitals of the families as an important role on their lives at school, as well as on their possibilities of social insertion, but not the only one; b) the kind of school, the courses that were taken, the level they reached, their school experiences as an important role on the social insertion of deaf individuals, without defining their social destinies; c) the social relationships established by deaf individuals (based or not on their families and spouses) constituting important factors on the quality of their school trajectory and social insertion; d) the deafness mark must be considered an essentially adverse condition that cannot define the individuals destiny by itself / Este estudo, cuja pesquisa de campo foi realizada no ano de 2006, teve por objetivo investigar as trajetórias sócio-educacionais de adultos surdos com idades entre 19 e 69 anos diferentes estratos sociais dos municípios de Pindamonhangaba-SP e Tremembé-SP , que tenham ou não passado por processos de escolarização, encontram hoje fora da escola. Buscou-se compreender, a partir de relato do próprio sujeito e/ou de seus familiares, como foram construídas essas trajetórias, isto é, as marcas, as singularidades e fatores que nela influenciaram. Esta presente investigação se inscreve na vertente de estudos desenvolvidos por Bueno (1993, 1997, 2001, 2004, 2007), Soares (1999, 2004), Cukierkom (1996) e Oliveira (2007), os quais têm como base a perspectiva de que a surdez é uma marca biológica distintiva, mas que a construção do sujeito social é determinada por vários fatores psicológicos, biológicos, sociais, ambientais, políticos, econômicos, que devem ser considerados ao analisar o destino social do sujeito. O estudo teve como fundamentação teórica as contribuições de Bernard Charlot (2000), Bernard Lahire (1997, 2004) e Pierre Bourdieu (2003), na perspectiva de compreender as peculiaridades presentes nas relações sociais, tendo como base o capital cultural, e o capital social e origem e suas implicações no processo de escolarização e no destino social dos sujeitos. Os procedimentos utilizados para a coleta dados foram as entrevistas com os seis adultos surdos sob três eixos fundamentais vida familiar, vida escolar e vida social. A análise dos dados nos revelou que ao lado da marca limitadora da surdez, quatro foram os fatores que intervieram nessas trajetórias: a) os capitais de origem das famílias exerceram papel preponderante na escolarização, bem como na sua possibilidades inserção social, entretanto não único, b) os processos de escolarização (tipo de escola, cursos realizados, nível escolar alcançado, as experiências escolares singulares) exerceram papel importante na inserção social desses indivíduos surdos, entretanto não definiram a priori o destino social do sujeito, c) as relações sociais estabelecidas pelos sujeitos surdos (com base ou não em suas famílias ou cônjuges) se constituíram fatores importantes na qualidade de sua trajetória escolar e inserção social, d) a marca da surdez pode ser considerada uma condição intrinsecamente adversa, mas que por si não define o destino dos sujeitos

The aim of this thesis is to examine women's educational attainment and social mobility in contemporary South Korea. This study seeks to answer to the following key research questions: 1) how much parents' characteristics such as occupational status and educational attainment, are important to their children's education and class; 2) the roles of educational qualification to occupational attainment in contemporary South Korea; 3) whether South Korea has become a more equal society with improved mobility chances for people of different social origins; and, 4) if there is a general pattern of social mobility and social fluidity in South Korea, how it is related to the change in the occupational positions of women. This research uses the Korean Labour and Income Panel Study (KLIPS) from 1998 to look at the changing relationship between social origin, education, and destination and what it indicates the role of education in the social mobility in Korea. The following tools are used for the analysis: I adopt Goldthorpe's class schema and CASMIN scales of educational qualifications. I then separately look at the association for men and women separately. Various statistical methods are subsequently employed to explore the substantive research questions: I use descriptive analysis for changes of Korea's educational attainment and look at absolute rates of mobility. Disparity ratios and odds ratios are used for describing the relative patterns and chances of educational attainment and mobility and regression model are used for analysing the impact of a range of factors on educational attainment and class destination. Finally, I draw on log-linear and log-multiplicative analysis for the trends in relative mobility and social fluidity. I find that access to education is still influenced by social background. Although the disparities between men and women become narrower across cohort, class and gender differentials in general educational attainment still apply to South Korea. Regarding the relative mobility rates, the results from disparity ratios show that the social class and gender differentials in class mobility still exist and the results of odds ratios confirm that social origin has a significant effect on children's social class destination. Looking at the origin-education (OE) association, class differences are still considerable and the relationship between class origins and educational attainment remains. Turning to the association between educational attainment and occupational destination (ED), qualifications continue to play a critical role in entry into the labour market remains, but there is no evidence that the association between education and destination has strengthened over time. Looking at the direct association between origins and destination (OD), the evidence shows the continuing association of origins on destinations. Regression analysis shows that the origin class effects upon educational attainment and occupational destinations were not dramatically decreased, but there were significant changes for women but not for men. The findings from the log-linear and log-multiplicative analysis suggest that there is trendless fluctuation and a stronger link between education and destination for women than for men.

This study examines the probabilities of attaining the highest level of education depending on parental education, and probabilities of reproducing parental education depending on parental separation. The theoretical starting point concerns social origin and social mobility. How parental separation affects educational reproduction among Swedish birth cohorts from 1905-1980 is investigated. Linear Probability Model (LPM) is used to analyze data from The Swedish Level of Living Survey (LNU). The results show that the probability of reproducing parental education is higher for those from intact families compared to those who experienced parental separation. However, the differences in probabilities between groups are small, and after controlling for a number of demographic traits, the correlation weakens. Furthermore, differences in the effect of parental separation for groups of different parental education is shown, although this is confounded by the educational expansion that took place in Sweden during the 20th century. The conclusion of this paper is that parental separation has a negative effect on the reproduction of parental education, and that the experience affects groups of different social origin differently.

[pt] O propósito central deste estudo, desenvolvido na área de Administração e, especificamente, no campo dos estudos de carreiras, foi compreender e analisar as influências da origem social no desenvolvimento da carreira médica, tendo como base os relatos das experiências vivenciadas por médicas ginecologistas e obstetras com carreiras consolidadas, atuantes na cidade do Rio de Janeiro. O método de pesquisa história de vida foi empregado para obter as narrativas biográficas das médicas com o intuito de alcançar aspectos subjetivos, culturais, sociais e relacionais de suas vidas e carreiras. As contribuições da abordagem de Pierre Bourdieu aos estudos de carreira alicerçaram o referencial teórico. Os achados sobre o campo médico demonstraram sobreposição de fenômenos sociais que se relacionaram com raça, classe e gênero, além da percepção das entrevistadas sobre as mudanças que vêm ocorrendo nesse campo. Além disso, os relatos evidenciaram que, neste grupo de médicas, as diferenças das origens sociais influenciaram o desenvolvimento de suas carreiras. Os capitais econômico e cultural foram os principais que delinearam as trajetórias — de vida e de carreira — e contribuíram em maior nível para aumentar ou diminuir as oportunidades no campo médico. O capital econômico delimitou as escolhas e os caminhos durante a graduação e no desenvolvimento da carreira, evidenciado em escolhas motivadas pelo aperfeiçoamento profissional ou premidas pela necessidade financeira, que resultaram, por exemplo, no maior ou menor tempo dedicado à educação médica, ou, ainda, na abertura do consultório próprio na fase inicial ou intermediária da carreira. O capital cultural herdado e adquirido nas trajetórias de vida, conexo ao capital social, tornou-se, no contexto do campo médico, capital de carreira, visto que contribuiu para aumentar as oportunidades que as médicas tiveram em suas carreiras e observado nas diferentes posições ocupadas que refletiram os volumes desiguais desses capitais. Os achados do estudo revelaram aspectos do habitus de carreira que podem restringir ou ampliar as estratégias e investimentos relacionados à carreira, sobressaindo-se a herança do habitus da carreira médica, recebida de familiares médicos, aliado ao capital cultural dos pais quando se tornou evidente a importância das relações sociais, das estratégias e das táticas que seriam mais adequadas para se desenvolver e alcançar uma carreira sólida e de sucesso na medicina, antes mesmo da entrada no curso. Os capitais de carreira médica destacados nas trajetórias foram: relações e interações sociais (capital cultural e social); tempo de educação médica (capital cultural e capital econômico); diplomas de instituições (capital cultural e simbólico); experiência acadêmica internacional (capital cultural e econômico). Por fim, destacamos que os contextos das origens sociais das médicas tornaram os caminhos mais ou menos fluídos, reflexo da influência dos distintos volumes e estruturas dos capitais que potencializaram ou atenuaram o mérito individual. / [en] The central purpose of this investigation, developed in Management studies, specifically, within the field of career studies, was to understand and analyze the influences of social origin on the development of the medical career, based on the reports of experiences lived by gynecologists and obstetricians with consolidated careers, working in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The life history research method was used to obtain the biographical narratives of the doctors in order to reach subjective, cultural, social, and relational aspects of their lives and careers. The contributions of Pierre Bourdieu s approach to career studies underpinned the theoretical framework. The findings of the medical field demonstrated an overlap of social phenomena that were related to race, class, and gender, in addition to the interviewees perception of the changes that have been occurring in this field. Furthermore, the reports showed that, in this group of doctors, differences in social origins influenced the development of their careers. The economic and cultural capitals were the main ones that outlined the trajectories —life and career— and contributed most to increase or decrease opportunities in the medical field. Economic capital delimited choices and paths during graduation and career development, evidenced in choices motivated by professional improvement or pressured by financial need, which resulted, for example, in more or less time dedicated to medical education, or even more, in opening their own practice in the initial or intermediate phase of their career. The cultural capital inherited and acquired in life trajectories, connected to social capital, became, in the context of the medical field, career capital, as it contributed to increase the opportunities that doctors had in their careers and observed in the different positions occupied that reflected the unequal volumes of these capitals. The study findings revealed aspects of the career habitus that can restrict or expand career-related strategies and investments, highlighting the inheritance of the medical career habitus, received from medical relatives, combined with the cultural capital of the parents when it became evident the importance of social relationships, strategies, and tactics that would be most suitable for developing and achieving a solid and successful career in medicine, even before entering the undergraduate course. The medical career capitals highlighted in the trajectories were: social relationships and interactions (cultural and social capital); medical education time (cultural capital and economic capital); diplomas from institutions (cultural and symbolic capital); international academic experience (cultural and economic capital). Finally, we highlight that the contexts of the doctors social origins made the paths more or less fluid, reflecting the influence of the different volumes and structures of capitals which enhanced or mitigated the individual merit.

This study focuses on intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic resources in multiple dimensions and decomposes the influence of parents’ education, social class, and income in relation to the same outcomes for children as well as the unique impact of mothers and fathers on sons and daughters. In order to minimize measurement error in parental characteristics and life course bias for children, high quality Swedish administrative register data (spanning over 40 years) is utilized. A sibling correlation approach is employed to establish the net influence of each parental resource, both in general and by parents’ and children’s gender. The results show that intergenerational inequality is subject to resource specificity. First, same resource transmission implies that the same parental resource as the child outcome matter most in transmission of advantage. In this sense, educational elites foster educational elites, while economic advantage favor children’s own economic status. Second, the intermediate and overlapping socioeconomic field resource, parental social class, explains most of children´s outcomes in education and income suggesting that there is a same field transmission. Parental resources explain little variation in its field opposite (i.e. parental education on child income and parental income on child education). Finally, whether or not intergenerational inequality is subject to gender specificity is ambiguous, it ranges from negligible to substantial contributions. Mothers’ and fathers’ resources do matter independently over all outcomes, where especially fathers’ income dominate and drives the total influence of parental income. However, the result for the same gender transmission is mixed. The conclusion is that gender and, especially, resource specificity cannot be neglected without biasing results, confusing time trends, and underestimating the true rate of intergenerational inequality. Intergenerational processes of inequality will be misrepresented in a unidimensional conceptualization of socioeconomic transmission, which will also affect both theoretical understanding and the prospects of policy intervention.