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Education, Equality and Social Cohesion: A Comparative Analysis
Education Equality and Social Cohesion A Comparative Analysis Author:Andy Green, John, Jan Germen Janmaat 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 devel... more »oped 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.« less