How to get on without really trying

Abstract

What can the schools or Youth Employment Service do for the ambitious child from a poor background? All the sociological evidence suggests that a working‐class background is still a formidable obstacle to upward social mobility. The children seem as aware of this as the social scientists. A London Youth Employment Officer told me that high ambitions expressed by school‐leavers on written questionnaires are almost always replaced by down‐to‐earth job requests in interviews.

Citation

Bowker, G. (1974), "How to get on without really trying", Education + Training, Vol. 16 No. 2/3, pp. 74-78. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb016340