Were They Pushed or Did They Jump?: Individual Decision Mechanisms in Education

by Diego Gambetta

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521107709
• ISBN13: 9780521107709
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"