Social Class in the 21st Century by Mike Savage

Author:Mike Savage
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141978925
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2015-10-12T16:00:00+00:00

Figure 7.2 Percentage of each social class who are graduates

Source: The nationally representative data-set from the GBCS (collected by the GfK market-research company)

So although not all of the elite class are graduates, it is the most ‘graduate’ of our seven classes. Nevertheless, those in the elite are not guaranteed a place in the sun by the simple fact of going to university, even to the most prestigious and selective ‘ancient’ universities. Figure 7.3 shows that although graduates are five times more likely to be found in the elite than non-graduates, still only three in every twenty graduates is found in that class. The established middle class has the greatest number of graduates: just under half of graduates are assigned to it. In contrast, graduates are largely absent from the precariat, where the majority have no educational qualifications. Only one in ten of the elite reports the same.

What overall picture of the role of higher education in social mobility do we get from the Great British Class Survey? In some respects, it is a familiar one. Social class differences in entry to university find their echo in the different social class outcomes seen for graduates and non-graduates. The expansion of higher education has not led to greater equality of access to universities; yet there is a tightening association between graduate status and membership of the most advantaged groups in British society.

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