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发表于2024-11-24
Pedigree pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
Americans are taught to believe that upward mobility is possible for anyone who is willing to work hard, regardless of their social status, yet it is often those from affluent backgrounds who land the best jobs. Pedigree takes readers behind the closed doors of top-tier investment banks, consulting firms, and law firms to reveal the truth about who really gets hired for the nation's highest-paying entry-level jobs, who doesn’t, and why.
Drawing on scores of in-depth interviews as well as firsthand observation of hiring practices at some of America’s most prestigious firms, Lauren Rivera shows how, at every step of the hiring process, the ways that employers define and evaluate merit are strongly skewed to favor job applicants from economically privileged backgrounds. She reveals how decision makers draw from ideas about talent—what it is, what best signals it, and who does (and does not) have it—that are deeply rooted in social class. Displaying the "right stuff" that elite employers are looking for entails considerable amounts of economic, social, and cultural resources on the part of the applicants and their parents.
Challenging our most cherished beliefs about college as a great equalizer and the job market as a level playing field, Pedigree exposes the class biases built into American notions about the best and the brightest, and shows how social status plays a significant role in determining who reaches the top of the economic ladder.
Lauren A. Rivera is associate professor of management and organizations at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.
Rivera is trying to show that kids from certain background might get advantage over getting elite jobs. Students from working class might do very good in school, but they might loose those opportunities. An alright read - could be shorter. It might also could be used as parenting material for those parent like myself ;)
评分Lauren Rivera herself was an elite student who got bachelor degree in Yale and master & PhD degree in Harvard. This book revealed a lot of facts about EPS firms' recruiting and selecting process. However, it does not dig out deeply the reason behind those facts. The writing is a bit lengthy and jumbled.
评分早知道有译本我就不花两天读了噻
评分感觉是纯发议论啊,举的例子没太大说服力,而且明显是蹦着早已定下的主题去的;好多列举的数据也没有出处,你说什么就是什么吧。其实对于pedigree英国人已经开始动摇了,美国人还不愿意承认,而我大天朝早就认识到了,从高考是不是寒门唯一的出路到各种二代就能看出来。没啥科学性,弃了。
评分怎么讲,如何去对一个过程进行评价呢?作者过程的材料十分丰富,从校招到宣传招募和简历筛选等,能把Karen Ho那本清算的一个章节扩展成一本书也是有点厉害。补充了经验理解,但是也没啥很强的理论贡献【但使用布迪厄研究不平等谁又能做出理论贡献呢?】,但是将就业市场和教育机构两个institution层面上的结合到了,对于以前找getting a job那种社会网的研究有一定补充,主要还是文化的角度,尤其是如何理解merit。21世纪,我们只能做这样的“好”研究了么?
又是一年校招季。9月—11月,沙场“秋”点兵。 “神仙打架,凡人遭殃”。当我们谈论不平等时,我们在谈论什么?有位应用数学专业的室友向来犀利,她一言以蔽之,“就是也想要”。招聘的竞技场,要不起的好工作还好吗? 美国西北大学学者劳伦·A·里韦拉的《出身:不平等的选拔...
评分 评分从看理想电台听到关于这本书的一些介绍,再加上一些现实感受,对教育与社会阶层问题产生了极大的兴趣,想要一探究竟。前面的写作原因,调查方法,论证过程,结论,附录,参考文献……让人感觉回到了埋头苦写论文的时期。但这本书通俗易懂,没有掉书袋的感觉和明显的文化隔阂感...
评分最上层1%的群体足以对整个社会面貌和政治经济秩序产生重大影响。这个超级财富阶层必然有他们自己的教育选择,因为他们需要通过教育将其财富体面地传递到下一代。 社会顶层的这1%到底是怎么筛选、如何培养?最近广西师大出版社即将出版的《出身:不平等的选拔与精英阶层的自我复...
评分Pedigree pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024