Inequality, Sociologically and Social Philosophically Seen

Fifty Years of Equality?

“…He suggests that rather than an individualistic, social elevator understanding of education measured through "materialistically defined success," many Americans prize education as developing cooperative intelligence, scientific inclination, and concern for eradicating class struggle. 4 Appropriately, Curran calls into question the link between the purposes of education and what should be equalized. Contra the inequality reports, Curran does not ask how school differences vary by individual, but rather how all school differences relate to nonschool forces and social ideas of education.…”