Research Interests

Social Inequality, Sociology of Education; Comparative Social Policy; Social Determinants of Health 

Selected Publications

Edgerton, J. D., Roberts, L.W., & von Below, S. (forthcoming 2010). “Education and quality of life.” In Kenneth Lands (Editor), International Handbook of Quality of Life Studies. Springer International.

Edgerton, J.D., Peter, T., & Roberts, L.W. (2008). “Back to basics: socioeconomic, gender, and regional disparities in Canada’s educational system.” Canadian Journal of Education, 31(4): 861-888.

Edgerton, J.D., Roberts, L.W., Wilkinson, L., & Woolford, A. (2008). “Markers of ethnic marginalization: Aboriginal Peoples in Canada.” In Petra Vojtová (Editor), Markers of Ethnic Marginalization, (pp 106-174). Česke Budĕjovice: University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Health and Social Studies.

Roberts, L.W., Edgerton, J.D., & Peter, T. (2008). “The Importance of place: facility conditions and learning outcomes.” Education Canada, 48(3): 48-51.

Edgerton, J.D. (2007). “Higher education and welfare regimes: comparing Canada with Sweden and the United States.” In Nikolai Genov (Editor), Comparative Research in the Social Sciences, (pp. 257-276). Paris and Sofia: ISSC and REGLO.

Lapsley, D.K., & Edgerton, J. (2002). “Separation-individuation, adult attachment style, and college adjustment.” Journal of Counseling and Development, 80: 484-492.

Peter, T., Edgerton J.D., & Roberts. L. W. (In submission). “Does Political Ideology Influence Educational Inequality: A Cross-National Exploration of Nation States.”  International Studies in the Sociology of Education.

Edgerton, J.D., Roberts L.W., Bös, M., & von Below, S. (In submission).“Ethnogenesis: modes of multiculturalism in six societies.” In L.W. Roberts, M. Boes & S. von Below, (Editors), Inter-Ethnic Relations and Social Incorporation on Both Sides of the Atlantic. McGill-Queen’s University Press.