Stratification in Higher Education

by Shavit, Yossi; Arum, Richard; Gamoran, Adam; Menahem, Gila

• ISBN13: 9780804754620
• ISBN10: 0804754624
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-06-13
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

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, assess the links between this expansion and inequality in the national context. Contrary to most expectations, the authors show that as access to higher education expands, all social classes benefit. Neither greater diversification nor privatization in higher education results in greater inequality. In some cases, especially where the most advantaged already have significant access to higher education, opportunities increase most for persons from disadvantaged origins. Also, during the late twentieth century, opportunities for women increased faster than those for men. Offering a new spin on conventional wisdom, this book shows how all social classes benefit from the expansion of higher education.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

More inclusion than diversion : expansion, differentiation, and market structure in higher education	p. 1
Israel : diversification, expansion, and inequality in higher education	p. 39
Japan : educational expansion and inequality in access to higher education	p. 63
South Korea : educational expansion and inequality of opportunity for higher education	p. 87
Sweden : why educational expansion is not such a great strategy for equality - theory and evidence	p. 113
Taiwan : higher education - expansion and equality of educational opportunity	p. 140
United States : changes in higher education and social stratification	p. 165
Great Britain : higher education expansion and reform - changing educational inequalities	p. 195
France : mass and class - persisting inequalities in postsecondary education	p. 220
Germany : institutional change and inequalities of access in higher education	p. 240
The Netherlands : access to higher education - institutional arrangements and inequality of opportunity	p. 266
Russia : stratification in postsecondary education since the Second World War	p. 294
Switzerland : tertiary education expansion and social inequality	p. 321
Australia : changes in socioeconomic inequalities in university participation	p. 351
The Czech Republic : structural growth of inequality in access to higher education	p. 374
Italy : expansion, reform, and social inequality in higher education	p. 400
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