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Zitierlink DOI
10.26092/elib/1146
Verlagslink DOI
10.1007/978-3-658-11490-9_16

Status Attainment and Social Mobility. How can Genetics Contribute to an Understanding of their Causes?

Veröffentlichungsdatum
2016
Autoren
Schulz, Wiebke  
Diewald, Martin  
Baier, Tina  
Schunck, Reinhard  
Zusammenfassung
This paper discusses why and how the consideration of inter-individual genetic variation can enhance the explanatory power of sociological inquiries of status attainment and social stratification. We argue that accounting for genetic variation may help to address longstanding and in some cases overlooked causality problems in explaining the emergence of social inequalities – problems which may interfere with both implicit and explicit interpretations of a society as “open” or “closed,” as meritocratic or non-meritocratic. We discuss the basic methodological tenets of genetically informative research (Sect. 2) and provide empirical examples and theoretical conceptualizations on how genetic variation contributes to status attainment (Sect. 3). This is followed by a discussion of gene-environment interplay in relation to more abstract ideas about social mechanisms that generate inequality, touching on normative implications of these ideas as well as considerations from a social justice perspective (Sect. 4). Finally, we briefly review the potential benefits as well as pitfalls of incorporating genetic influences into sociological explanations of status attainment. As we will argue, understanding how social influences impinge on the individual and how genes influence our lives requires sophisticated research designs based on sound sociological theory and methodology (Sect. 5). ( p. 371)
Schlagwörter
Status attainment

; 

Social mobility

; 

Genetics

; 

Social Stratification

; 

Inequality

; 

Behavioral Genetics

; 

Heritability

; 

Twin Study

; 

Extended Twin Family Design
Institution
andere Institution  
Dokumenttyp
Artikel/Aufsatz
Zeitschrift/Sammelwerk
KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie  
Band
55
Startseite
371
Endseite
395
Zweitveröffentlichung
Ja
Dokumentversion
Postprint
Lizenz
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Sprache
Englisch
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