The Increasing Stratification of Higher Education: Ideology and Consequence

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  • SHARON S. MAYES University of Maryland at College Park

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https://doi.org/10.11575/jet.v11i1.43734

Résumé

nce, diversified their social functions. Stratification of these institutions into elite universities, mass universities and community colleges replicates the class stratification in the work force. The existence of higher education as a filtering device for a stratified economy is increasingly obvious, but the realization is not without structural and ideological contradictions. The relationships within this expansion and the resulting problems for the mass of college students and the most powerful college students suggests a difficult future for higher education in general.

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2018-05-11

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