overty of Aspiration? A Comparative Analysis of Educational and Occupational Aspirations of Teenagers in Three British Birth Cohort Studies

这个博士项目将利用三个具有全国代表性的ESRC资助的大型纵向数据集来对青少年的教育和职业抱负进行高级统计分析。2000/02年的英国千年队列研究(MCS)、1970年的英国队列研究(BCS)和1958年的国家儿童发展研究(NCDS)将被分析。对教育和工作的激励已被认为是对年轻人结果的重要影响。此外，有人认为，提高被边缘化青年的愿望可以减少社会和经济不平等。该项目有两个创新之处：1.将在比较框架中研究MCS中的期望模式，其中包括对较老的队列(BCS和NCDS)的分析，以便更好地了解教育和职业愿望的潜在过程和长期趋势。2.它将充分利用数据的纵向性质和现有的丰富的社会学信息衡量标准，扩展目前使用MCS对愿望的分析。

This doctoral project will make use of three large-scale nationally representative ESRC funded longitudinal datasets to undertake advanced statistical analyses of teenager's educational and occupational aspirations. The 2000/02 UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS), and the 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS) will be analysed.Aspirations for education and work have come to be considered as important influences on young peoples' outcomes. Furthermore it is suggested that raising the aspirations of marginalised young people could reduce social and economic inequalities. Aspirational patterns have been previously studied using the three cohort studies individually.The proposed project has two innovations: 1. It will study aspirational patterns in the MCS in a comparative framework that incorporates analyses of the older cohorts (the BCS and NCDS), in order to better understand underlying processes and longer term trends in educational and occupational aspirations. 2. It will extend current analyses of aspirations using the MCS by fully exploiting both the longitudinal nature of the data and the rich array of sociologically informed measures available.