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Laura Löwe – European Education, 2023
This study examines how the association between higher education and the socioeconomic status is affected by positional educational advantages in West Germany from 1976 to 2015. Positional educational advantages account for the declining exclusiveness of higher education degrees in the course of educational expansion, which is accompanied by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, College Graduates, Socioeconomic Status
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von Below, Susanne; Powell, Justin J. W.; Roberts, Lance W. – Sociology of Education, 2013
Educational systems considerably influence educational opportunities and the resulting social inequalities. Contrasting institutional regulations of both structures and contents, the authors present a typology of educational system types in Germany to analyze their effects on social inequality in eastern Germany after unification. After 1990, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Sociology, Educational Opportunities, Social Justice