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The persistence of inequality in rich nations suggests that education systems create and re-create generations of advantage and generations of disadvantage. They do so because both the culture of education and the institutional arrangements which embody this culture offer a set of highly adaptable tools. With these tools, one generation of socially advantaged families can reproduce advantage for a second generation in a context of ongoing change. This includes blocking and frustrating the aspirations of families whose disadvantage thus accumulates over generations. Sociologists have described this as “status conflict”, following Max Weber (Collins 1977; Weber 1976).
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Teese, R. (2011). Generations of advantage and generations of disadvantage: equity versus excellence in Australian higher education. In: Eckert, T., von Hippel, A., Pietraß, M., Schmidt-Hertha, B. (eds) Bildung der Generationen. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-92837-1_22
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