CLASS, GENDER, AND SCHOOL EXPANSION IN FRANCE: A FOUR-SYSTEMS COMPARISON.
Most European educational systems have traditionally been segregated on class and gender lines. This article explores whether educational-expansion models that emphasize material incentives and institutionalized values (as sources of demand) had different effects on the expansion of four secondary s...
| Published in: | Sociology of Education Vol. 64; no. 4; pp. 229 - 251 |
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| Format: | Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Oct91
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| Summary: | Most European educational systems have traditionally been segregated on class and gender lines. This article explores whether educational-expansion models that emphasize material incentives and institutionalized values (as sources of demand) had different effects on the expansion of four secondary school systems in France from 1881 to 1975. Class was more important than gender in determining expansion because state policies emphasized class more than gender in determining supply. The state`s policies toward education reinforced class (and presumably gender) differences because they affected the educational decisions of males and females who attended either the mass or the elite systems. The relative absence of gender differences may explain why the feminist movement has not been as successful in France as it has been in the United States. |
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