Students are to read and present papers by Melvin L. Kohn, Ishida et al., and Richard Breen. The main focus of this session is education as a mechanism by which inequalities in occupying a more advantageous class position may be reduced. Students are expectd to learn the difference between educational expansion and equalization, primary and secondary effects of education, inclusion and exclusion mechanisms, intergenerational class reproduction and mobility. Students also discuss methodological issues of cross-national research as well as research based policy implications.

 

 

1. Kohn, M. L. 1987. “Cross-National Research as an Analytic Strategy”. American Sociological Review, 52:713-731.

2. Ishida, H., Mueller, W. and Ridge, J. M. (1995) “Class Origin, Class Destination and Education: A Cross-National Study of Ten Industrial Nations”. American Journal of Sociology, 101:145-193.

3. Breen, R. 2010. “Educational Expansion and Social Mobility in the Twentieth Century” Social Forces, 89(2): 365-88.