Education, Equality and Social Cohesion A Comparative Analysis

Free Download Education, Equality and Social Cohesion: A Comparative Analysis By Andy Green, John Preston, Jan Germen Janmaat
2006 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 1403987971 | PDF | 1 MB
The first fully comparative empirical analysis of the relationship between education and social cohesion, this book develops a new ''distributional theory'' of the effects of educational inequality on social solidarity. Based on a wide-ranging theoretical critique, and extensive analysis of data on inequality and social attitudes for over 25 developed countries, the study shows how educational inequality undermines social trust, civic co-operation and the rule of law. It is not how much education a country has that matters for social cohesion but how it is distributed and the co-operative values that people learn.