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Social Inequalities in Higher Education Participation in Trentino from the Bologna Process to the Great Recession (2000-2012)
Full text linkIn this paper, we analyse the role of social origins in the shaping of university participation in the province of Trento (North-East of Italy) from 2000 to 2012. This long-term view gives us the chance to test the role played by the Bologna process and by the economic crisis. More precisely, this setting allows us to analyse its effects on inequality of educational opportunity in the face of two opposite situations. The first, subsequent to the Bologna process, is characterised by a huge increase in the enrolment rate at the university. In the second situation, subsequent to the economic crisis, a huge decline in higher education participation can be observed. Using data on upper secondary school graduates in the province of Trento and applying logistic models, we find that inequality of educational opportunity tends to diminish during educational expansion, while it increases with the persistence of the economic crisis
La coesione sociale in Europa. Aspetti definitori e relazioni con le disuguaglianze sociali
No full textIl concetto di coesione sociale, sebbene sia presente nella storia del pensiero sociologico dai tempi di Durkheim, non è stato però in grado di suscitare, all’interno della comunità scientifica, quell’interesse che altri concetti hanno saputo invece risvegliare. I concetti di integrazione sociale, di solidarietà e di capitale sociale sono stati oggetto di analisi teoriche ed empiriche particolarmente approfondite, non così per la coesione sociale, che però ritroviamo in diverse discipline, dalla sociologia all’economia, passando per la scienza politica e la psicologia sociale. È mancato però un interesse organico. Non solo non si è mai cercato di sviluppare una teoria della coesione sociale, ma non si è tentato nemmeno di chiarire le eventuali differenze e similarità con concetti prossimi come quelli di ordine sociale, integrazione, solidarietà e capitale sociale
Camilla Borgna, Studiare da straniero. Immigrazione e disuguaglianze nei sistemi scolastici europei, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2021
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Coesione sociale e vulnerabilità economica in Europa
No full textIl paper studia le relazioni tra coesione sociale e livelli di disuguaglianza di risorse materiali in un'ottica comparata
Does Economic Vulnerability Affect Social Cohesion? Evidence from a Comparative Analysis
No full textThis article explores the relationship between social cohesion and social inequalities in Europe. The analysis is built around two main research
questions: Does economic vulnerability exert an impact on the level of social cohesion? Does social class mediate between economic vulnerability and social cohesion? The comparative analysis is based on the welfare regimes perspective. In my opinion, welfare state is relevant because it influences not only the relationship between social class and economic vulnerability, but also the link between social cohesion and economic vulnerability. The empirical analysis, based on data from the “European Quality of Life Survey” collected by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions in 2003, shows that economic vulnerability does influence social cohesion and that social class and welfare regime are partially able to attenuate this effect
Social origins and the decision to leave university during the Great recession: the role of the field of study
No full textIscrizione all'università: gli effetti degli incentivi monetari
No full textIl paper valuta gli effetti di una borsa di studio per studenti meritevoli e in condizione di necessità economica sulla probabilità di iscriversi all'università utilizzando un regression discontinuity design
Social Cohesion in Europe. How do the different dimensions of inequality affect social cohesion?
No full text This article examines the relationships between social cohesion and social inequalities in Europe by considering three interrelated issues. The first regards the definition and measurement of the concept of social cohesion. The second issue concerns the identification of the aspects of social inequality that affect the overall level of social cohesion. More precisely, I investigate two main hypotheses: the first argues the existence of a direct negative association between economic inequality and social cohesion. The second states that this relation is influenced by other aspects of social inequality such as the individuals’ position in the stratification system and the educational level. The third issue introduces the comparative analysis that has been based on the welfare regime approach. More specifically, I hypothesize that welfare state is relevant because it influences both the relationship between social position and economic inequality, and the relationship between social cohesion and economic inequality. Data from the first round of the 2002 European Social Survey have been analysed applying structural equation models in order to measure social cohesion and to estimate the effects, both direct and indirect, exerted by the different dimensions of inequalities on social cohesion. Moreover, through a multi-group analysis, I investigate the effects resulting from the different welfare regimes. It emerges that social position and welfare state are not able to fully mediate the effect played by economic condition. </jats:p
Classi sociali o gruppi multidimensionali? Come rappresentare le disuguaglianze sociali nell'Italia di oggi
Full text linkThe paper summarises the basic features of the long-standing debate between authors maintaining the persistence of social classes in contemporary advanced societies and the authors stating, on the contrary, that social inequalities are deeply fragmented or even individualised. Then, it outlines the reasons why this debate should be taken again by Italian social scientists. Subsequently, the article shortly sets out the basic theoretical foundations of the concept of classes and the main features of the multidimensional typology of the Italian social stratification recently drawn out by ISTAT. In light of analytical considerations and empirical evidences, it is argued that this typology and, more generally, all those of the same kind display a very weak, if any, criterion validity. A comparison between ESEC class scheme and ISTAT typology regarding the capacity of accounting for inequalities in family disposable incomes, in probabilities of being in severe material deprivation ("sensu" Eurostat), and in unemployment incidence rates, is then carried out. By resorting to different (OLS, logit and Poisson) regression models, the paper shows that the class scheme has a greater and sounder construct validity than ISTAT typology and that the former allows to measure the individual effects of possible factor of inequalities different from social classes, while the latter structurally impedes to do that. The article closes suggesting that the thesis of the crystallization of important inequalities around social classes still represents a rather sound research hypothesis, at least in the case of Italy
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