First published in 1979, this now classic text presents a major study of the development of educational systems, focusing in detail on those of England, Denmark

Margaret Archer's Social Origins of Educational Systems (SAGE, 1979) has been hailed as a landmark in the sociology of education. It provides a major historical

This wide-ranging handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the field of education as viewed from a sociological perspective. Experts in the area present th

Britain was the last major European state to create a national education system and is set to be the first to dismantle it. In this wide-ranging comparative stu