Preface: Access to Education: Mobility Tool or Roadblock of
Stratification?, Katherine S. 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 and Byoung-Hoon Lee
6. Equal Opportunity in Higher Education in Israel: Lessons from
the Kibbutz, Yaakov Gilboa and 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 and Jaap Dronkers
13. Gender, Perceptions of Opportunity, and Investment in
Schooling, Angel Harris
Paul Attewell is a Professor of Sociology and of 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 James Knapp Dean of the Krieger School
of the Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. Newman's most
recent books include The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor
in America and Laid Off, Laid Low: The Social and Political
Consequences of Employment Instability.
"Growing Gaps provides a variety of case studies that illuminate
the causes and consequences of inequality globally. The readings
highlight how education still plays a significant role in social
mobility and social reproduction across nations. There are real
theoretical and empirical gems contained within these pages."
--Richard Arum, Professor of Sociology and Education, New York
University
"Paul Attewell provides a perceptive overview of sharply differing
views on the function of education in today's world..."
--Contemporary Sociology
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