Education, Equality and Social Cohesion A Comparative Analysis
, by Green, Andy; Preston, John; Janmaat, Jan GermenNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781403987976 | 1403987971
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 12/12/2006
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.