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30 Aug 2019
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Social and Political Science 2019
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Research Handbook on the Sociology of Education
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Rolf Becker
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30 Aug 2019
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9781788110419
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9781788110426
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788110426
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c 624
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Social and Political Science 2019
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Table of Contents
Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1: Key challenges for the sociology of education: theoretical, methodological, and empirical issues
Part II: Theoretical Foundations
Chapter 2: A sociological perspective on education as a lifelong process
Chapter 3: How does education depend on social origin?
Chapter 4: The rational choice paradigm in the sociology of education
Chapter 5: Multiple social contexts of education: systematic commonalities, differences and interrelations
Chapter 6: The problem of meritocracy: the belief in achievement, credentials and justice
Chapter 7: Measurement of skills and achievement: a critical assessment of theoretical and methodological concepts
Part III: Methodological Problems
Chapter 8: Longitudinal data analysis in the sociology of education: key concepts and challenges
Chapter 9: Experiments in the sociology of education: causal inference and estimating causal effects in sociological research on education
Part IV: Modernization And Educational Expansion
Chapter 10: Educational expansion and inequalities: how did inequalities by social originand gender decrease in modern industrial societies?
Chapter 11: Gender segregation in education
Part V: Organization of Education and Outcomes
Chapter 12: How do educational systems affect social inequality of educational opportunities? The role of tracking in comparative perspective
Chapter 13: Early educational inequality: growing up in different learning environments
Chapter 14: The equalizing effect of schools and its limits
Chapter 15: Educational institutions and inequalities in educational opportunities
Chapter 16: Vocational education and training in comparative perspective
Chapter 17: Vertical and horizontal stratification in higher education
Chapter 18: Still a safety net? Revisiting the role of vocational education and training in school-to-work transitions in Europe
Chapter 19: The social structure of schools and classrooms
Chapter 20: Teachers: their characteristics and their role in the education system
Chapter 21: Disability and inequality in educational opportunities from a life course perspective
Part VI: Benefits of Education and Returns To education
Chapter 22: Returns to adult education and inequality: a life course perspective
Chapter 23: Socio-emotional skills in education and beyond: recent evidence and future research avenues
Chapter 24: Returns to education in the life course
Chapter 25: Knowledge capital and economic growth
Part VII: Migration, Education and Social Integration
Chapter 26: Ethnic inequality in educational attainment
Chapter 27: Language assimilation and the education of immigrant students
Part VIII: Policy Implications of Research in The sociology of Education
Chapter 28: Large-scale assessments of educational systems
Chapter 29: Simulation of outcomes of educational policies and programmes
Chapter 30: Beyond schools: the social embeddedness of educational inequality
Index
Subjects
Education
Education Policy
Teaching and Learning
Politics and Public Policy
Education Policy
Sociology and Social Policy
Education
Sociology and Sociological Theory
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