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How has Educational Expansion changed the Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Achieving Professional, Managerial and Technical Class Positions in Britain? A Configurational Analysis. (2008)
Journal Article
Cooper, B., & Glaesser, J. (2008). How has Educational Expansion changed the Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Achieving Professional, Managerial and Technical Class Positions in Britain? A Configurational Analysis. Sociological Research Online, 13(3), 1-22

This paper, whose purpose is both substantive and methodological, focuses on changes over a nine year period, drawing on data from two British birth cohorts (individuals born in 1958 and 1970), and, substantively, employs set theoretic methods to exp... Read More about How has Educational Expansion changed the Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Achieving Professional, Managerial and Technical Class Positions in Britain? A Configurational Analysis..

Just how flexible is the German selective secondary school system? A configurational analysis (2008)
Journal Article
Glaesser, J. (2008). Just how flexible is the German selective secondary school system? A configurational analysis. International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 31(2), 193-209. https://doi.org/10.1080/17437270802212254

School systems may be usefully characterized according to Turner's proposed ideal types of sponsored and contest mobility. Germany is a critical case with respect to this typology because its secondary school system is stratified and selective, and y... Read More about Just how flexible is the German selective secondary school system? A configurational analysis.

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in patients with traumatic brain injury (2004)
Journal Article
Glaesser, J., Neuner, F., Lütgehetmann, R., Schmidt, R., & Elbert, T. (2004). Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in patients with traumatic brain injury. BMC Psychiatry, 4, https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-244x-4-5

Background: Severe traumatic stressors such as war, rape, or life-threatening accidents can result in a debilitating psychopathological development conceptualised as Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Pathological memory formation during an alarm... Read More about Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in patients with traumatic brain injury.