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Expansion And Structural Change - Higher Education in Germany, the United States, and Japan, 1870-1990 (Paperback, Revised edition)
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Expansion And Structural Change - Higher Education in Germany, the United States, and Japan, 1870-1990 (Paperback, Revised edition)
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As a central institution that ensures equality of opportunity and
social justice, the university is the most important channel of
social mobility in modern societies. Over the past century,
universities have assumed an important role in the political and
cultural emancipation of women, minorities, and the lower
socioeconomic classes. This expansion in educational institutions
was not an isolated event in the years after the World War II, but
rather a phase in a longer, secular process of modernization which
started in the late nineteenth century and continues up to the
present day.Expansion and Structural Change explores this
development, focusing on the social background of students and the
institutional transformation of higher education in several
countries. Who have been the beneficiaries of this remarkable
process of educational expansion? Has it made Western society more
open, mobile, and democratic? These questions are analyzed from a
historical perspective which takes into account the institutional
change of universities during this century.Based on archival data
for the United States, Germany, Japan, France, and Italy, this
study combines both comparative and historical perspectives. It
documents the political struggle of different social groups for
access to univeristies, as well as the meritocratic selection for
higher status positions. This work will be an indispensable
reference for anyone searching for a comparative and historical
analysis of higher education in the most advanced countries.
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