Stratification in Higher Education - A Comparative Study

Zusatztext "This volume provides a model of conceptually rich and methodologically rigorous analyses of the expansion of higher education and its implications for social outcomes. It represents collaborative research at its best. The insights generated by this research suggest social policies that should further broaden access to higher education." Informationen zum Autor Yossi Shavit is Professor of Sociology at Tel Aviv University and Head of the B. I. and Lucille Cohen Institute for Public Opinion Research. Richard Arum is Professor of Sociology and Education at New York University. Adam Gamoran is Professor of Sociology and Educational Policy Studies and Director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Klappentext The mass expansion of higher education is one of the most important social transformations of the second half of the twentieth century. In this book, scholars from 15 countries, representing Western and Eastern Europe, East Asia, Israel, Australia, and the United States, show how this expansion benefits all social classes. Zusammenfassung The mass expansion of higher education is one of the most important social transformations of the second half of the twentieth century. In this book, scholars from 15 countries, representing Western and Eastern Europe, East Asia, Israel, Australia, and the United States, show how this expansion benefits all social classes.

Product details

• Authors: Yossi (EDT)/ Richard Arum (EDT)/ Adam Gamo Shavit
• Assisted by: Richard Arum (Editor), Adam Gamoran (Editor), Yossi Shavit (Editor)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2010
• EAN: 9780804771528
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-7152-8
• No. of pages: 504
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 233 mm x 26 mm
• Series: Studies in Social Inequality; Studies in Social Inequality; Studies in Social Inequality (
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories