The social class of Catholics in Scotland

Lindsay Paterson

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 2000, vol. 163, issue 3, 363-379

Abstract: The social status of people brought up as Catholics in Scotland, as measured by their occupational class, is analysed by using cross‐sectional survey data gathered in 1997. The main finding is that Catholics have probably risen in social status to a greater extent than non‐Catholics. The experience of Scottish Catholics seems to be distinctive, because no such patterns are found for England, and indeed in this respect Scottish Catholics more closely resemble members of non‐Christian religions in England than they do English Catholics. The most likely explanation is the particular role which state‐funded Catholic schools have played in Scotland, especially the system of comprehensive secondary schools that was set up after 1965. However, the analysis is suggestive rather than definitive and needs to be replicated on cohort data with larger sample sizes.

Date: 2000
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