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Sociology and history: M. S. Archer's Social Origins of Educational Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Robert D. Anderson
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One of the more ambitious intellectual projects of recent years is the body of work by Margaret S. Archer which centres on her Social Origins of Educational Systems, published in 1979. Archer's thesis is that modern educational systems are of two basic kinds, centralized and decentralized, and that their character and functioning are conditioned by the social and political conflicts of their formative phases. The underlying contrast is between France and England: this was Archer's starting-point, and in 1971 she published Social Conflict and Educational Change in England and France 1789–1848 in collaboration with Michalina Vaughan. Social Origins of Educational Systems extended this in time, bringing the story down to the present day, and in national coverage, adding Russia and Denmark to the countries examined. A shorter ‘University edition’—reduced to 234 pages from over 800—has now been published which is again restricted to England and France.

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European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , May 1986 , pp. 149 - 160
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Copyright © Archives Européenes de Sociology 1986

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