Unequal colleges in the age of disparity / Charles T. Clotfelter.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (viii, 439 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780674982499
- 0674982495
- Universities and colleges -- United States
- Universities and colleges -- United States -- Sociological aspects
- Education, Higher -- Economic aspects -- United States
- Educational equalization -- United States
- College students -- United States -- Economic conditions
- College students -- United States -- Social conditions
- Universités -- États-Unis
- Universités -- États-Unis -- Aspect sociologique
- Enseignement supérieur -- Aspect économique -- États-Unis
- Démocratisation de l'enseignement -- États-Unis
- Étudiants -- États-Unis -- Conditions économiques
- Étudiants -- États-Unis -- Conditions sociales
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General
- EDUCATION / Higher
- College students -- Economic conditions
- College students -- Social conditions
- Education, Higher -- Economic aspects
- Educational equalization
- Universities and colleges
- Universities and colleges -- Sociological aspects
- United States
- College
- Ungleichheit
- USA
- 338.43378 23
- LC67.6 .C56 2017eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
It is commonly supposed that colleges help to reduce inequality by providing paths for individuals to rise beyond modest origins. Reviewing evidence from more than 1,000 colleges, elite and not, the author argues that baccalaureate education's power to reduce inequality has actually declined, because the colleges themselves have become more unequal. Unequal Colleges in the Age of Disparity describes the market for baccalaureate education over the last four decades, paying attention to both the demand side and supply side of the market. It is an historical analysis of a large and variegated industry, described in terms - such as "firm," "consumer," and "market power"--Rarely applied to it, that explain this increasing inequality.-- Provided by publisher
Part I: Context -- 1. Unequal colleges -- 2. System, industry, or crazy quilt? -- 3. Snapshot, circa 1970 -- 4. Outside forces -- Part II. Supply -- 5. The inequality dividend -- 6. Zero-sum competition -- 7. Evolution in the core business -- Part III. Demand -- 8. Scholastic segregation -- 9. Economic stratification -- 10. Sorting by seriousness -- 11. Sorting by belief? -- Part IV. Consequences -- 12. Outcomes -- 13. Why it matters -- Appendix: Table A.1 Shares by college category of total undergraduate enrollment in 1,157 four-year institutions -- Table A.2 The dwindling share of places at elite colleges -- Notes.
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