Sociology of education : a critical reader

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Sociology of education : a critical reader

edited by Alan R. Sadovnik

Routledge, c2007

  • : pbk
  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • Introduction to the sociological study of education
  • Suggested readings
  • Theory and method in the sociology of education
  • Introduction: theory and research in the sociology of education / Alan R. Sadovnik
  • On education and society / Emile Durkheim
  • Functional and conflict theories of educational stratification / Randall Collins
  • Broken promises : school reform in retrospect / Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
  • On understanding the processes of education : the contributions of labeling theory / Ray Rist
  • The forms of capital / Pierre Bourdieu
  • Social class and pedagogic practice / Basil Bernstein
  • The effects of education as an institution / John Meyer
  • Suggested readings
  • School organization and processes : teaching, learning and curriculum
  • The organizational contexts of teaching and learning : changing theoretical perspectives / Adam Gamoran, Walter Secada and Cora Marrett
  • Is there really a teacher shortage? / Richard Ingersoll
  • Whose markets, whose knowledge / Michael W. Apple
  • Suggested readings
  • International education
  • The political construction of mass schooling : European origins and worldwide institutionalization / Francisco Ramirez and John Boli
  • Marketization and privatization in mass education systems / Geoff Whitty and Sally Power
  • Nation versus nation : the race to be the first in the world / David P. Baker and Gerald Letendre
  • Suggested readings
  • Higher education
  • Changes in access to higher education in the United States, 1980-1992 / David Karen
  • It's not enough to get through the open door : inequalities by social background in transfer from community colleges to four-year colleges / Kevin J. Dougherty & Gregory S. Kienzl
  • College-for-all : do students understand what college demands? / James E. Rosenbaum
  • Suggested readings
  • Education and inequality
  • Tracking : from theory to practice and more than misplaced technology : a normative and political response to Hallinan on tracking / Maureen Hallinan and Jeannie Oakes
  • Invisible inequality : social class and childrearing in black families and white families / Annette Lareau
  • Collective identity and the burden of acting white in black history, community and education / John Ogbu
  • The burden of acting neither white nor black : cultural conflict among Asian-American students / Jamie Lew
  • The help-seeking orientation of Latino and non-Latino urban high school students : a critical-sociological investigation / Ricardo Stanton-Salazar, Lisa Chavez and Robert Tai
  • What do we know about the effects of single-sex schools in the private sector? : implications for public schools / Cornelius Riordan
  • Suggested readings
  • Educational reform and policy
  • Complexity, accountability, and school improvement / Jennifer A. O'Day
  • The false promises of school choice in NCLB / Douglas Lauen
  • Our impoverished view of educational reform / David C. Berliner

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