Diversification and Inequality in Higher Education: A Comparison of Israel and the United States
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| AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | University of Minnesota Duluth, Abraham Yogev, Ph.D., is Professor, School of Education and Department of Sociology, Tel Aviv University. His main fields of interest are higher education, social stratification, and educational policy. Dr. Yogev is completing a study on privatization processes in Israeli higher education, sponsored by the Israel Science Foundation., Adam Gamoran, Ph.D., is Professor of sociology and educational policy studies and Director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, University of Wisconsin—Madison. His main fields of interest are educational inequality and school reform. Dr. Gamoran is coeditor (with Yossi Shavit and Richard Arum) of Stratification in Higher Education (Stanford University Press, 2007)., Hanna Ayalon, Ph.D., is Professor, Department of Sociology, Tel Aviv University. Her main fields of interest are inequality in education and the expansion of higher education. Her current work is on the effects of curricular policy on the gender gap in math. |
| ANO | 2008 |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | Sociology of Education |
| ISSN | 0038-0407 |
| E-ISSN | 1939-8573 |
| EDITORA | Annual Reviews (United States) |
| DOI | 10.1177/003804070808100301 |
| CITAÇÕES | 8 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
| MD5 |
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Resumo
This article explores how the structure of higher education in the United States and Israel mediates the relationship among race/ethnicity, social origins, and postsecondary outcomes. On the basis of differences in how the two systems of higher education have developed, the authors anticipated that inequality in college attendance will be greater in Israel, while inequality in the type of college or university one attends will be greater in the United States. They found that students in the United States are more likely to attend college than are their Israeli counterparts. Contrary to their expectations, however, inequality in the chances of attendance is similar across these nations, if not slightly greater in the United States. Inequality in the types of institutions that students attend appears greater in the United States, but the contours of ethnic inequality in college destinations are markedly different across these two contexts.