ABSTRACT
Debates about ethnic inequality and disadvantage have historically focused on employment and the labour market. While this clearly reflects the importance of occupation as ‘a significant attribute in all the dimensions of stratification, [which] possesses connotations of power and prestige relationships’ (Kelsall et al., 1972, p. 18), it has tended to mean that other potentially important areas of inquiry have been neglected. Relatively little attention has, for example, been given to the link between education, ethnicity and social stratification. This is a particularly important gap given the strong ideological and empirical links that exist between occupational status and education in industrial societies.
