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Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs by Rivera, Lauren A.
by Rivera, Lauren A. | HC | Good
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- Publication Year
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- Publication Name
- Pedigree : How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs
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- Princeton University Press
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How social class determines who lands the best jobs 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.
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Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691155623
ISBN-13
9780691155623
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Product Key Features
Publication Name
Pedigree : How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
392 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
2.4in
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
24.1 Oz
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Hn59.2
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"Rivera identifies the myriad ways that class influences every stage of the hiring process at top-tier firms, showing how it is that individuals from affluent backgrounds have come to dominate the most elite segments of the American labor market. She pulls back the curtain time and time again, revealing how processes that are apparently class, race, and gender neutral are anything but." --Elizabeth A. Armstrong, coauthor of Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality, Co-Winner of the 2016 Silver Medal in Career (Job Search, Career Advancement), Axiom Business Book Awards, " Pedigree sets a new standard of rigor for qualitative social-science research. Rivera shows how educational stratification in the United States is particularly pronounced and caste-like at the gateway to elite professions, and how the boundary between elite colleges and the elite firms that recruit from them is so fuzzy as to be only ceremonial." --Mitchell L. Stevens, author of Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites, Co-Winner of the 2016 Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association, "By demonstrating how leaders of firms select upon educational status, traits they already find in their midst, and prefer applicants that mirror their own pasts, trajectories, and skills, Rivera has provided important evidence for mechanisms of the (re)production of inequality. Those interested in the sociology of culture, in labor markets, and in elites and stratification will find Rivera's book necessary reading." ---Shamus Khan, American Journal of Sociology, Winner of the 2016 Max Weber Book Award, Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the American Sociological Association Winner of the 2016 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association Co-Winner of the 2016 Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association Co-Winner of the 2016 Silver Medal in Career (Job Search, Career Advancement), Axiom Business Book Awards One of Choice 's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015, " Pedigree provides a rare behind-the-scenes look at the hiring processes for elite jobs. Rivera's thoughtful ethnographic observations illuminate exactly how social class matters, and how the display of cultural skills can be crucial for job seekers to gain access to elite positions. It is an eye-opening book." --Annette Lareau, University of Pennsylvania, "[ Pedigree ] provides an insider look at how top-notch places hire, and explores how their processes serve those with the most privileged and affluent backgrounds." ---Bouree Lam, The Atlantic, " Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs is an academic book with the requisite references to gender theory and Marxist concepts of inequality. But read it carefully and it becomes something far more useful--a guide on how to join the global elite." -- Economist, "In this riveting account of how the nation's top investment banks, consultancies, and law firms choose employees, Lauren Rivera goes inside the recruitment process, interviewing the interviewers and sitting in on their decision meetings. This eye-opening book exposes how the American elite keep the best jobs for themselves." --Frank Dobbin, author of Inventing Equal Opportunity, Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs is an academic book with the requisite references to gender theory and Marxist concepts of inequality. But read it carefully and it becomes something far more useful--a guide on how to join the global elite., "[ Pedigree ] provides an insider look at how top-notch places hire, and explores how their processes serve those with the most privileged and affluent backgrounds." ---Bourree Lam, The Atlantic, "[ Pedigree ] provides an insider look at how top-notch places hire, and explores how their processes serve those with the most privileged and affluent backgrounds." --Bouree Lam, The Atlantic, Sociologist Rivera has written an exceptionally useful study of how hiring for elite starting jobs is actually done in the US. This insider study shows how the top investment banks, law firms, and consulting companies hire only from a double handful of leading universities, law schools, and business schools. . . . This significant sociological study will also likely be read as a how-to manual., Co-Winner of the 2016 Silver Medal in Career (Job Search, Career Advancement), Axiom Business Book Awards One of Choice 's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015, [ Pedigree ] provides an insider look at how top-notch places hire, and explores how their processes serve those with the most privileged and affluent backgrounds. ---Bouree Lam, The Atlantic, Winner of the 2016 Max Weber Book Award, Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the American Sociological Association, Winner of the 2016 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association, "[Rivera's] richly described account is mesmerising--and horrifying." ---Gillian Tett, Financial Times, By demonstrating how leaders of firms select upon educational status, traits they already find in their midst, and prefer applicants that mirror their own pasts, trajectories, and skills, Rivera has provided important evidence for mechanisms of the (re)production of inequality. Those interested in the sociology of culture, in labor markets, and in elites and stratification will find Rivera's book necessary reading. ---Shamus Khan, American Journal of Sociology, "[Rivera's] richly described account is mesmerising--and horrifying." --Gillian Tett, Financial Times, [Rivera's] Richly Described Account Is Mesmerising--And Horrifying. ---Gillian Tett, Financial Times, "Sociologist Rivera has written an exceptionally useful study of how hiring for elite starting jobs is actually done in the US. This insider study shows how the top investment banks, law firms, and consulting companies hire only from a double handful of leading universities, law schools, and business schools. . . . This significant sociological study will also likely be read as a how-to manual." -- Choice
Copyright Date
2015
Target Audience
College Audience
Topic
Counseling / Career Development, Organizational Behavior, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Workplace Culture
Lccn
2015-011838
Dewey Decimal
331.11/4450973
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Education, Business & Economics, Social Science
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