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Author_Paul Windolf
Boudon's Model
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Changing Labor Market Conditions
Civil Service Families
comparative education research
cycles
Cyclical Duration
economic
Economic Cycles
educational
Educational Expansion
educational inequality
elite
enrollment
Enrollment Rates
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Growing Enrollment Rates
High Pass Filter
higher education sociology
historical analysis of university access
Increasing Enrollment Rates
Kuznets Cycles
meritocratic selection
modernization theory
Numerus Clausus
Numerus Clausus System
Professional Secondary Schools
Public Administration
rates
Selective Private Universities
Seventh Degree Polynomial
Sixth Degree Polynomial
Social Reproduction
Spectral Density Function
states
Status Competition Model
student social mobility
Unemployed University Graduates
united
universities
university
University Enrollment
West Germany
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780813366630
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 06 Oct 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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As a central institution that ensures equality of opportunity and social justice, the university is the most important channel of social mobility in modern societies. Over the past century, universities have assumed an important role in the political and cultural emancipation of women, minorities, and the lower socioeconomic classes. This expansion in educational institutions was not an isolated event in the years after the World War II, but rather a phase in a longer, secular process of modernization which started in the late nineteenth century and continues up to the present day.Expansion and Structural Change explores this development, focusing on the social background of students and the institutional transformation of higher education in several countries. Who have been the beneficiaries of this remarkable process of educational expansion? Has it made Western society more open, mobile, and democratic? These questions are analyzed from a historical perspective which takes into account the institutional change of universities during this century.Based on archival data for the United States, Germany, Japan, France, and Italy, this study combines both comparative and historical perspectives. It documents the political struggle of different social groups for access to univeristies, as well as the meritocratic selection for higher status positions. This work will be an indispensable reference for anyone searching for a comparative and historical analysis of higher education in the most advanced countries.
Paul Windolf is professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Trier, Germany.
