学歴と職業移動

旧制中等学校卒業者の追跡調査・大阪市の場合

抄録

It is generally believed in Japan that the academic career is one of the mostimportant factors for promotion. But this belief has never been verified byempirical data of a nation-wide research. This is a report of a preliminaryreseach concerning the opportunities of prewar secondary and higher educationand the social allocation of their graduates. About two thousand questionnaireswere mailed in March, 1970, to graduates of two middle schools and two vocationalschools in Osaka; 970 of them were collected and were analysed. The resultsare as follows:
1.The occupational and educational status of the respondents' fathers arehigher than that of the average of that time. The fathers's status of thegraduates of the vocational schools is lower than that of the graduates of themiddle schools. The fathers of graduates of the imperial Universities havethe highest position.
2.The occupational status and income of the respondents at present are higherthan the average of the graduates of secondary or higher schools in Japan, andthey are also higher than those of all working male population in thiscountry.
3.Inter-generational upward occupational mobility is more frequent among thevocational school graduates than among those of the middle schools; in whichthe graduates of the imperial universities show the least mobility.
4.The suggestions obtained from these results are:
A. Not all schools equally promote inter-generational mobility; neither do allschools of the highest level.
B. The intermediate level schools have the most important function for the mobility because the entering opportunities are greater than those rof thehighest level.
One of the purposes of the main research that follows, will be to inquireinto the function of schools in intergenerational mobility in relation to theopportunity of entrance.