Were They Pushed or Did They Jump?

Individual Decision Mechanisms in Education

By:

Diego Gambetta

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Studies in Rationality and Social Change

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This book explores the factors which govern the range of educational decisions confronting individuals between compulsory school education and university. The data on which it draws come from two surveys conducted in north-west Italy, one of unemployed young people and one of high-school pupils. The author is in effect testing the two fundamental and opposed paradigms of explanation which are generally applied in the sociology of education; one which holds that the individual agents are essentially passive, being either constrained by lack of alternatives or pushed by causal factors of which they are unaware; and the other in which they are regarded as capable of purposive action, of weighing the available alternatives with respect to some future rewards.

Release date Australia

February 12th, 2009

Author

Diego Gambetta

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

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Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

248

Series

Studies in Rationality and Social Change

Dimensions

140x216x14

ISBN-13

9780521107709

Product ID

2974718

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