Dr. Wolfgang Lehmann

Biography

Wolfgang Lehmann is a Professor and Undergraduate Chair in the Department of Sociology at Western University. His work focuses on the role of social class in relation to the inequalities experienced in education and subsequent transitions to work. He has authored "Choosing Labour? School-Work Transitions and Social Class" (McGill-Queen’s University Press) and edited "Education and Society: Canadian Perspectives" (Oxford University Press). His areas of specialization include social inequality, social class, sociology of work, sociology of education, higher education, vocational education, school-work transitions, and qualitative methods. His selected publications include case studies on social mobility among working-class students in Canada and analyses of the forms of capital affecting these students' transitions to university employment.

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