Sociology of Education: A Critical Reader
by Sadovnik, Alan R.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-03-28
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary
This comprehensive reader examines the most pressing topics in sociology and education and exposes students to examples of sociological research on schools. Drawing from classic and contemporary scholarship, noted sociologist Alan Sadovnik has chosen readings that examine current issues and reflect diverse theoretical approaches to studying the effects of schooling and society.This reader provides students with examples of both the best theory and research in the field. Through full, rather than excerpted primary source readings, the text presents the powerful insights of sociology in providing an understanding of the effects of schooling in contemporary society.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. xiii |
| Suggested Readings | p. xvii |
| Theory and Method in the Sociology of Education | p. 1 |
| Theory and Research in the Sociology of Education | p. 3 |
| On Education and Society | p. 23 |
| Functional and Conflict Theories of Educational Stratification | p. 37 |
| Broken Promises: School Reform in Retrospect | p. 53 |
| On Understanding the Processes of Schooling: The Contributions of Labeling Theory | p. 71 |
| The Forms of Capital | p. 83 |
| Social Class and Pedagogic Practice | p. 97 |
| The Effects of Education as an Institution | p. 115 |
| Part I Suggested Readings | p. 131 |
| School Organization and Processes: Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum | p. 133 |
| The Organizational Context of Teaching and Learning: Changing Theoretical Perspectives | p. 135 |
| Is there Really a Teacher Shortage? | p. 159 |
| Whose Markets, Whose Knowledge? | p. 177 |
| Part II Suggested Readings | p. 195 |
| International Education | p. 197 |
| The Political Construction of Mass Schooling: European Origins and Worldwide Institutionalization | p. 199 |
| Marketization and Privatization in Mass Education Systems | p. 219 |
| Nation versus Nation: The Race to Be the First in the World | p. 233 |
| Part III Suggested Readings | p. 247 |
| Higher Education | p. 249 |
| Changes in Access to Higher Education in the United States, 1980-1992 | p. 251 |
| It's Not Enough to Get Through the Open Door: Inequalities by Social Background in Transfer from Community Colleges to Four-Year Colleges | p. 267 |
| College-for-All: Do Students Understand What College Demands? | p. 291 |
| Part VI Suggested Readings | p. 309 |
| Education and Inequality | p. 311 |
| Tracking: From Theory to Practice | p. 313 |
| More than Misplaced Technology: A Normative and Political Response to Hallinan on Tracking | p. 318 |
| Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families | p. 325 |
| Collective Identity and the Burden of Acting White in Black History, Community, and Education | p. 355 |
| Burden of Acting Neither White Nor Black: Asian American Identities and Achievement in Urban Schools | p. 379 |
| The Help-Seeking Orientation of Latino and Non-Latino Urban High School Students: A Critical-Sociological Investigation | p. 391 |
| What Do We Know About the Effects of Single-Sex Schools in the Private Sector?: Implications for Public Schools | p. 415 |
| Part V Suggested Readings | p. 431 |
| Educational Reform and Policy | p. 435 |
| Complexity, Accountability, and School Improvement | p. 437 |
| False Promises: The School Choice Provisions in No Child Left Behind | p. 461 |
| Our Impoverished View of Educational Reform | p. 487 |
| Part VI Suggested Readings | p. 517 |
| Permissions | p. 519 |
| Index | p. 521 |
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