SOCI 152 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Labour Party (Uk), Protestantism
Document Summary
Ways to place education in public policy landscape. Social investment- greater societal productivity and activating more workers. Promote equality of opportunity instead of equality of outcome. Timing of democracy v industrialization: provision of education as first resort . Religion: catholic countries have high prevalence of religious schooling (~20%) protestantism has strong belief in education. Us, germany, canada, switzerland lower than expected. Tertiary education is regressive, if low enrollment (25% or less) right parties can gain; if mass enrollment (60% or more) left-wing more likely to benefit. Uk conservatives lead education expansion in transition from industrial workforce (shrinking working-class) Uk labour party used tuition fees as progressive strategy.
