Social Stratification and Higher Education.
The effect of educational attainment on adult occupational status is often exaggerated, but higher education is nonetheless an important route to a good job. The middle class have always made disproportionate use of this tool for self-advancement, and the gap is not narrowing. The role of tuition ch...
| Published in: | Harvard Educational Review Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 277 - 317 |
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Harvard University
Spring1968
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