Some Sociological Alternatives to Human Capital Theory and their Implications for Research on Post‐compulsory Education and Training Footnote[1]

[1] This article arises from work funded by ESRC grant no. L123251041. We are grateful to all those who have commented on various versions of this article but especially to John Furlong, Hugh Lauder, Francis Green, Phil Hodkinson, Phil Brown and Andy Green. Any errors occurring in this article are of course the responsibility of the authors

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