The Making of Higher Education Inequality
How Do Mechanisms and Pathways Depend on Competition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4737089 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T Tam (0000-0001-5687-3984, Chinese University of Hong Kong), Jin Jiang (0000-0002-8435-1662, Chinese University of Hong Kong) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 807-816 |
| Publication date | 2014-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0003122414534437 |
| OpenAlex | W1968483005 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 9 |
We extend the theoretical contributions of Alon (2009) by proposing and testing two hypotheses about the context dependence of inequality of educational opportunity (IEO). Alon offers a model of IEO that incorporates class adaptation and organizational exclusion as two test-score-based mechanisms that perpetuate class inequality. She hypothesizes that the changing level of IEO depends on trends in competition. Through a secondary analysis of Alon's numerical results, we clarify her results and demonstrate that the causal structure of IEO (e.g., the explanatory roles of adaptation and exclusion) depends on trends in competition and college selectivity. Additionally, changes in competition for college admission from 1972 to 1992 had little to do with enrollment rates, but appear to be driven largely by changes in college wage premiums
Adaptation (eye · Class (philosophy · Competition (biology · Context (archaeology · Demographic economics · Econometrics · Economics · Geography · Inequality · Labour economics · Sociology · Wage · Computer Science · Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities · Higher Education Research Studies · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Mathematics · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,17 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2023 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |