On the Edge of Commitment - Educational Attainment and Race in the United States

Zusatztext "Stephen Morgan's theoretically innovative and statistically sophisticated book provides a compelling model for addressing...crucial issues." Informationen zum Autor Stephen L. Morgan is Associate Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. Klappentext The importance of educational certification for labor market success has increased since the 1970s. But social sciences still cannot answer a fundamental question: Who goes to college and why? In On the Edge of Commitment, Stephen L. Morgan offers a new model of educational achievement to explain why some students are committed to preparation for college. > Zusammenfassung This book offers a new model of educational achievement to explain why some students are committed to preparation for college.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Morgan, Stephen L. Morgan, Morgan Stephen
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.02.2005
• EAN: 9780804744195
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-4419-5
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Studies in Social Inequality; Studies in Social Inequality
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system