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World Expansion of Mass Education, 1870-1980
Abstract
Newly available enrollment data for over 120 countries for the period 1870-1980 are used to examine theories of mass educational expansion. Event-history analyses indicate that mass educational systems appeared at a steady rate before the 1940s and sharply increased after 1950. Pooled panel regressions show that the expansion of mass education, once formed, followed an S-shaped diffusion pattern before 1940, continuing with added force later. Expansion is endemic in the system. National variation exists; indications of national modernization or of structural location in world society, however, have only modest effects. It seems that mass education spreads in a world organized politically as nation-states and candidate states. Rates of appearance of mass education and of expansion accelerated sharply after World War II, with the intensification of the nation-state model and the centrality of mass education in this model.
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- Authors
- Meyer, J. W., Ramirez, F. O., & Soysal, Y. N.
- Venue
- Sociology of Education
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1992-04
- Volume
- 65
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 128
- ISSN
- 0038-0407 (ISSN-L)
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- W2026744119
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- 1,024
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- FWCI
- 20.06
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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