521
Educational Systems, Institutional Characteristics, and Inequalities

Friday, 20 July 2018: 10:30-12:20
Location: 716B (MTCC SOUTH BUILDING)
RC28 Social Stratification (host committee)

Language: English

Educational inequalities are a core issue in the sociology of education and refer to the systematic variations in aspects of educational attainment being structured by ascriptive characteristics such as social origin, gender, ethnicity or ability. Such educational inequalities can translate into advantages and disadvantages in life chances. Comparative research has shown that institutional characteristics impact educational inequalities and how these translate into inequalities in status attainment and life chances. This session responds to the current debate on macro-micro impacts and invites contributions that analyze the effect of educational systems and their characteristics (e.g. stratification, standardization, vocational specificity, public-private sponsorship) on educational inequalities. Possible contributions may include theory-driven empirical research or papers with methodological focus. Empirical approaches could cover both comparison of a small number of educational systems as well as (multilevel) analyses of large-scale data such as ESS, SILC, PISA or PIAAC.
Session Organizers:
Christiane GROSS, University of Wuerzburg, Germany and Andreas HADJAR, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Chairs:
Christiane GROSS, University of Wuerzburg, Germany and Andreas HADJAR, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Oral Presentations
521.2
The Effect of Parental Involvement in Different Educational Systems: A Natural Experiment in Taiwan
Yi-Lin CHIANG, University of Pennsylvania, USA
521.3
Sixteen Educational Systems in One Country – or More? How Institutional and Regional Variability Shape the Opportunity Structure of Students Transitioning from Primary to Secondary Education in Germany
Camilla BORGNA, Collegio Carlo Alberto (University of Turin), Italy
521.4
Worldwide Shadow Education and Social Inequality: When Do Shadow Systems Become a Thread to Equality of Educational Opportunities? a Comparison of 50 Countries
Steve ENTRICH, University of Potsdam, Germany
521.5
Educational Inequality after State Socialism: The Effect of German Unification Revisited
Bastian BETTHAEUSER, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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