Transition to University under Communism and after Its Demise. The Role of Socio-Economic Background in the Transition between Secondary and Tertiary Education in the Czech Republic 1948-1998
Abstract: The aim of this study is to assess the most recent trend in inequality in access to tertiary education in the Czech Republic. The authors put forward the hypothesis claiming that the period of stable inequalities in the years 1948-1989 was followed by a period of growing inequalities during the postcommunist transformation (1989-1999). The study focuses primarily on the cultural & socioeconomic (class) dimensions of social origin & gender & their net effect on success in the transition between secondary & tertiary education. Theoretically, the paper draws primarily on the work of Raftery & Hout (1996) & Hanley & McKeever (1997), who claim that the chances of attaining higher education among individuals from families with a low social status can only increase on the condition that the demand for the given level of education has first of all been satiated among all the strata disposing of social & cultural capital. Another important theory they build on is the theory of rational acti
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
- Language
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Englisch
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Veröffentlichungsversion
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In: Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review ; 39 (2003) 3 ; 301-324
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Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen
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Veröffentlichung
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Mannheim
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2003
- Creator
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Simonova, Natalie
Mateju, Petr
Rehakova, Blanka
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-56422
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Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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- Simonova, Natalie
- Mateju, Petr
- Rehakova, Blanka
Time of origin
- 2003
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