Ron Thompson

Education, Inequality and Social Class (eBook, PDF)

Expansion and Stratification in Educational Opportunity

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Education, Inequality and Social Class provides a comprehensive discussion of the empirical evidence for persistent inequality in educational attainment. It explores the most important theoretical perspectives that have been developed to understand class-based inequality and frame further research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351393768
• Artikelnr.: 55439426

Autorenporträt

Ron Thompson is a Principal Research Fellow at the University of Huddersfield. His main research interests are in social class and educational inequality, and he has written extensively on young people and educational marginality. He is co-author of Education, Work and Social Change and NEET Young People and Training for Work.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Class in Post-Industrial Society
3. Patterns of Inequality in Education
4. Structure and Stratification in Educational Systems
5. Social Reproduction: Schooling and Class Society
6. Cultural Reproduction: Habitus, Field and Capital
7. Pedagogic Codes: Power and Symbolic Control
8. Rational Action: Modelling Educational Choice
9. Education and Social Mobility
10. Conclusion