Education, inequality and social class : expansion and stratification in educational opportunity / Ron Thompson.

Includes bibliographical references.

Class in post-industrial society -- Patterns of inequality in education -- Structure and stratification in educational systems -- Social reproduction: schooling and class society -- Cultural reproduction: habitus, field and capital -- Pedagogic codes: power and symbolic control -- Rational action: modelling educational choice -- Education and social mobility.

"Education, Inequality and Social Class provides a comprehensive discussion of the empirical evidence for persistent inequality in educational attainment. It explores the most important theoretical perspectives that have been developed to understand class-based inequality and frame further research. With clear explanations of essential concepts, this book draws on empirical data from the UK and other countries to illustrate the nature and scale of inequalities according to social background, discussing the interactions of class-based inequalities with those according to race and gender"-- Provided by publisher.