essay
Some aspects of 'over-education' in modern Greece
Regional variation in modern Greece and Cyprus : toward a perspective on the ethnography of Greece • 268 • Published In 1976 • Pages: 419-428
By: Tsoukalas, C..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this paper, Tsoukalas examines the causes and consequences of 'over-education' in Greece. Compared to other European countries, Greece has the highest rate of enrollment in post-secondary institutions, a high ratio of population with advanced degrees, the highest percentage of law and social science degrees, and lowest percentage of technology and science degrees. According to Tsoukalas, two major reasons for over-education are i) Greece's particular integration into the world capitalist economy, which favors a large service sector and unproductive occupations; and ii) a long history of social mobility based on higher education whose institutions were paid for by a wealthy overseas comprador class.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Labor supply and employment
- Classes
- Education
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Greeks
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2003
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeastern Europe
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Scientist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2002
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- Not Specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1830-1967
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Greece
- NotesAdditional notes
- C. Tsoukalas
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 75045339
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Greece