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Sociology of education

the idea that class gaps in a level of schooling only shrink once advantaged groups have nearly all reached that level.

In sociology of education, maximally maintained inequality refers to the idea that class gaps in a level of schooling only shrink once advantaged groups have nearly all reached that level. This meaning comes from Raftery (1993) in Sociology of Education.[1]

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References

Raftery, A. E., & Hout, M. (1993). Maximally Maintained Inequality: Expansion, Reform, and Opportunity in Irish Education, 1921-75. Sociology of Education, 66(1), 41. https://doi.org/10.2307/2112784

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