Cross-national differences and accounting for social class inequalities in education

International Sociology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Marks, Gary N ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Australian Council for Educational Research   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Class background; Class schema; Cross national comparisons; EGP modernization; Occupational status; Sociology of education; Student achievement

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144454486     PISSN: 02685809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0268580905058328     Document Type: Review

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