This is the third and final of multiple themed issues of International Journal of Comparative Sociology ( IJCS) dedicated to the question of how education systems shape educational inequalities in terms of systematic variations access to and uptake of education along certain axes of inequality such as social origin, gender, and immigrant background. While the previous introductions dealt with the research program, conceptual background, and methodological challenges in the study of the link between institutional characteristics of education systems and educational inequalities (Introduction I) as well as with the state-of-research (Introduction II), this third and final introduction is dedicated to discuss certain research desiderata in terms of an outlook with an eye on the latest major studies in this vibrant research field.

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教育系统的制度特征和不平等：引言三

这是《国际比较社会学杂志》(IJCS) 多个主题中的第三期，也是最后一期，致力于探讨教育系统如何在教育获取和接受的系统性差异方面塑造教育不平等问题，以及沿着某些不平等轴（例如社会出身） 、性别和移民背景。虽然前面的介绍涉及教育系统的制度特征与教育不平等之间的联系（介绍 I）以及研究现状（介绍 II）中的研究计划、概念背景和方法挑战，第三篇也是最后一篇介绍致力于从展望的角度讨论某些研究需求，着眼于这个充满活力的研究领域的最新主要研究。