Growing Gaps

Educational Inequality Around the World
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-973219-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 606 g

As inequality grows rapidly both in post-industrial societies and in the high-growth economies of the developing world, its centrality and ubiquity among problems of interest to social scientists is becoming only more apparent. And among all of inequality's causes and manifestations, access to education is key to understanding and combating it, both for improving a person's individual life chances and for increasing countries' national wealth.

In Growing Gaps, Paul Attewell and Katherine S. Newman bring together an impressive group of scholars to closely examine the relationship between inequality and education. Indeed as many countries grow economically, it is unclear whether this growth leads directly to increased opportunity or more ferocious competition and thus more severe inequality. In many growing economies there has been a staggering growth of private higher education as demand for opportunity has outpaced supply,
and families who must fund this human capital accumulation are only burdened with more and more debt. Outlining the world-wide race for educational advantage, this volume takes a comparative approach, aiming to not only describe various nations' systems of education, but weave them together in a larger
network of stratification. Covering almost every continent, Growing Gaps provides an overarching and essential examination of who is actually able to benefit from economic growth and who, because of the educational demands it brings about, it shuts out. The book will serve as a lasting achievement towards understanding the root causes of inequality in an increasingly interconnected global society where the worsening situations for some increasingly effect all of us.

Zielgruppe

Students and scholars of education, inequality, and globalization in the social sciences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Attewell, Paul

Newman, Katherine S.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftswachstum
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogische Soziologie, Bildungssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungsökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface:
Access to Education: Mobility Tool or Roadblock of Stratification?
Katherine Newman
1.: Education and Inequality In a Global Context
Paul Attewell
2.: Educational Inequality in Latin America
Christian Cox
3.: Entrance into prestigious universities and the performance of discriminated groups on the "vestibular": Black Students in the University of São Paulo, 2001-2007
Antonio S. Guimaraes
4.: Education and Racial Inequality in Post Apartheid South Africa
Malcolm Keswell
5.: Social Class and Educational Inequality in South Korea
Kwang-Yeong Shin, Byoung-Hoon Lee
6.: Equal Opportunity in Higher Education in Israel: Lessons from the Kibbutz
Yaakov Gilboa, Moshe Justman
7.: Socio-political Changes and Inequality in Educational Opportunities in China: 1940 - 2001
Li Chunling
8.: Middle-class Losers?: The role of emotion in educational careers
Yi-Lee Wong
9.: The After Life of NEETS
Karen Robson
10.: Over education and Social Generations in France: Welfare Regimes and Inter Cohort Inequalities in Returns to Education
Louis Chauvel
11.: Education and the Labor Market: The Case of Poland
Pawel Polawski
12.: The Socio-Economic Integration of Immigrants in the EU Effects of Characteristics of Origin and Destination Countries on the First and Second Generation
Fenella Fleischmann, Jaap Dronkers
13.: Gender, Perceptions of Opportunity, and Investment in Schooling
Angel Harris

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Attewell is a Professor of Sociology who teaches in the doctoral programs in sociology and in urban education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His most recent book, co-authored with David Lavin, was Passing the Torch: Does Higher Education for the Disadvantaged Pay Off Across the Generations? It won the 2009 Grawemeyer Award in Education and also the American Education Research Association's Outstanding Book Award for 2009.
Katherine S. Newman is the Malcolm Forbes Class of 1941 Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs and the Director of the Institute for International and Regional Studies at Princeton University. Newman's most recent books include The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America (2007) and Laid Off, Laid Low: The Social and Political Consequences of Employment Instability (2008).