Were They Pushed or Did They Jump?
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Were They Pushed or Did They Jump? 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 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.
DIEGO GAMBETTA is Official Fellow of Nuffield College and professor of sociology at the University of Oxford. HEATHER HAMILL is lecturer in sociology at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St. Cross College.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521107709 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521107709 |
| Title | Were They Pushed or Did They Jump? |
| Author | Diego Gambetta |
| Series | Studies In Rationality And Social Change |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2009-02-12 |
| Number of pages | 248 |
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