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Inequality across societies = families, schools and persisting stratification /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Inequality across societies/ edited by David Baker ... [et al.].
Reminder of title:	families, schools and persisting stratification /
other author:	Baker, David,
Published:	Amsterdam ;Elsevier/JAI, : 2004.,
Description:	1 online resource (vii, 292 p.) :ill. :
Subject:	Educational sociology. -
Online resource:	http://www.emeraldinsight.com/1479-3539/14
ISBN:	9781849502412 (electronic bk.)

Inequality across societies = families, schools and persisting stratification /
Inequality across societiesfamilies, schools and persisting stratification /[electronic resource] :edited by David Baker ... [et al.]. - 1st ed. - Amsterdam ;Elsevier/JAI,2004. - 1 online resource (vii, 292 p.) :ill. - Research in sociology of education,v. 141479-3539 ;. - Research in sociology of education ;v. 13..

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Most societies place great faith in the modern school's power to offer children a more prosperous future, from better jobs to wider social opportunities. In turn, political leaders around the world push to expand western forms of schooling, creating more slots for children, from preschool through university levels. Yet despite this remarkable institutional change, are societies becoming equitable, especially for those groups living on the margins of civil society? Why, in too many cases, has schooling failed to deliver on its promise of reducing economic and social disparities? This volume addresses these questions, taking the reader into a variety of nations and cultural settings. With studies from Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, the volume illuminates howschools can reduce or reinforce the layered stratification of society,even in nations with non-western traditions. The contributors, diversein their own origins and viewpoints, advance our understanding of stratification by highlighting how a nation's history, particular institutions, and cultural context shape the school's efficiency as an agent of equity. The chapters move beyond individual conceptions of attainment and distinguish near-universal versus country-specific mechanisms that characterize the interplay between school expansion and inequality. It shows how schools can reduce or reinforce the layered stratification of society, even in nations with non-western traditions.

ISBN: 9781849502412 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

555555
Educational sociology.

LC Class. No.: LC203 / .I54 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 306.43

Universal Decimal Class. No.: 37.01

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