Expansion and ascription: Trends in educational opportunity in Canada, 1920-1994

Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 409-442

  Wanner, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

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EID: 0033246938     PISSN: 00084948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-618x.1999.tb00582.x     Document Type: Article

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