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POPULATION THEORIES AND THEIR APPLICATION with Special Reference to Japan
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This study is primarily concerned with theories of population that have a general application, with a considerable range of illustrative material and fairly numerous references to support the theories. It’s impracticable to attempt to apply the theories here developed to all regions of the earth or even of eastern and southeastern Asia in detail in one book, so the study area is concentrated on Japan.
Part I, deals with the general principles dealing with the advances in technology in banishing the inevitability of poverty and extreme scarcity that have enabled May to conquer Nature. So much has been written on the Malthusian theory that it was the author’s intention to adopt it here in a most suitable manner for the purpose of this study.
If there is not shortage of land and of natural resources in the world as a whole, and if there is an ever increasing supply of inventions and technical improvements, it does not follow that problems of population have ceased to be important. The problem of the distribution of population remains. Hence, the theoretical structure of Part III is based on the fact that a disparity exists, and must always exist, between the distribution of population and the distribution of natural resources. It is this disparity which gives rise to the most important problem of population at the present time…
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Title: Population Theories and Their Application
Author: E.F. Penrose
Publisher: Stanford University Press 1934
ISBN: 080473469X
Schooling and Work in the Democratic State
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A new explanation of the relation between schooling and work in the democratic, advanced industrial state emerges from this study that rejects both traditional views and the more recent Marxian perspective. Traditional views consider schools as autonomous institutions that are able to pursue thegoals of equality and social mobility irrespective of the inequalities of capitalist society; the Marxian perspective views schools as serving the role of producing wage-labor for capitalistic exploitation.
The authors suggest that the shortcomings of both views are rooted in the fact that they do not recognize the true functions of the democratic, capitalist state. This state is seen as an arena for struggle between forces pushing for egalitarian, democratic, reforms and those seeking to use the resources of the state for private capital accumulation. Depending on which side has primacy at the moment, schools will reflect one set of goals over the other. However, victory is never complete, and the tide of battle has shifted back and forth historically.
The authors develop this theory through interpreting the dynamic relation between U.S. schools and the workplace. Based on this approach, they predict changes in both schooling and work as well as the forms that future conflicts between the contending forces are likely to take.
Martin Carnoy is Professor of Education and Economics, and Henry M. Levin is Professor of Eduction and Affiliated Professor of Economics, at Stanford University.
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Schooling and work in the democratic state
By Martin Carnoy, Henry M. Levin
Published by Stanford University Press, 1985
ISBN 0804712425, 9780804712422
307 pages
Contents
Introduction 1
functionalist , capitalist , social relations
Historical Traditions and a New Approach 7
relations of production , functionalist , U.S. Supreme Court
Education and Theories of the State 26
social-conflict theory , relations of production , capital accumulation
Education and the Changing American Workplace 52
capital accumulation , labor market , Proposition 13
Social Conflict and the Structure of Education 76
vocational education , social mobility , herent
Reproduction and the Practices of Schooling 110
ability group , Huntington School , percentile ranking
Contradiction in Education 144
social equality , profes , school discipline
Reforms in the Workplace 177
trade unions , autonomous work groups , job enrichment
Predicting Educational Reforms 215
mastery learning , flexible modular scheduling , educational vouchers
The Potential and Limits of School Struggles 247
Reaganomics , Educational vouchers , Reagan Administration
References Cited 271
American Economic Review , Althusser , Chicago
Index 299
Levin , Schooling
