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Direct linkWeis, Lois, Ed.; Dolby, Nadine, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
"Social Class and Education: Global Perspectives" is the first empirically grounded volume to explore the intersections of class, social structure, opportunity, and education on a truly global scale. Fifteen essays from contributors representing the US, Europe, China, Latin America and other regions offer an unparralleled examination of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Middle Class, School Choice
Attewell, Paul, Ed.; Newman, Katherine S., Ed. – Oxford University Press, 2010
The last half century has seen a dramatic expansion in access to primary, secondary, and higher education in many nations around the world. Educational expansion is desirable for a country's economy, beneficial for educated individuals themselves, and is also a strategy for greater social harmony. But has greater access to education reduced or…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Access to Education, Global Approach, Foreign Countries
Apple, Michael W., Ed.; Ball, Stephen J., Ed.; Gandin, Luis Armando, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009
This collection brings together many of the world's leading sociologists of education to explore and address key issues and concerns within the discipline. The thirty-seven newly commissioned chapters draw upon theory and research to provide new accounts of contemporary educational processes, global trends, and changing and enduring forms of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Higher Education, Middle Class
Postiglione, Gerard A., Ed. – M.E. Sharpe Inc, 2006
Market reform, financial decentralization, and economic globalization have greatly accentuated China's social and regional inequalities. Education is expected to address these inequalities in a context of rapid social change, including the rise of an urban middle class, changed status of women, resurgence of ethnic identities, growing rural to…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Free Enterprise System, Global Approach, Social Stratification
