Routledge Handbook of the Sociology of Higher Education

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures and tables
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: The history and scope of the sociology of higher education
Part 1 Anglo-American higher education institutions through time and place
	2 The university and society: structural change and conflicting roles
	3 Theories of the sociology of higher education access and participation
	4 Higher education missions over time in Anglo-American institutions
	5 Maintaining status in new times: the continuing stratification of Anglo-American Universities
Part 2 How mass higher education institutions have taken shape
	6 The structural force exerted by marketization on higher education systems, research universities and academic researchers
	7 The McDonaldization of higher education revisited
	8 From multiversity to postmodern university
	9 Vicious circle: academic insecurity and privatization in western universities
	10 From In loco parentis to consumer choice: patterns and consequences of the changing relationship between students and institutions
Part 3 Inequality and diversity in higher education
	11 Access to higher education
	12 Social class in UK higher education: still an elephant in the room
	13 ‘Non-traditional’ students and diversity in higher education
	14 The forces of persistent inequality: minority statuses in higher education
	15 Ethnic capital, higher education and life chances
	16 At-risk and unprepared students in US higher education: the impact on institutions and strategies to address the new student body landscape
	17 Differentiation in higher education
	18 The transformation of higher education, credential competition, and the graduate labour market
Part 4 Anglo-American systems contrasted
	19 Invoking Humboldt: The German model
	20 Higher education in France: social stratification and social reproduction
	21 The Nordic model of higher education
	22 Russian higher education: a sociological analysis
	23 Higher education and social change in South Asia: from intellectual elitism to equality of opportunity
	24 Transformation of Japanese universities through the process of internationalization: a comparative perspective with Anglo-Saxon universities
	25 Is there an alternative university model? The debate around the Chinese model of the university
Part 5 Higher education in a global policy perspective
	26 Internationalization of higher education institutions: challenges and opportunities
	27 Global higher education partnerships: equity and epistemic concerns with distribution and flows of intellectual capital
	28 Higher education in crisis: critical voices from emerging countries
	29 The digital revolution in higher education: rhetoric and reality
	30 Gender equality and inequality in global higher education: changing the rules of the game?
	31 Life after higher education: the diversity of opportunities and obstacles in a changing graduate labour market
	32 Educational transformations: work and government policy in the schooled society
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