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This comprehensive and bestselling reader examines the most pressing topics in sociology and education while exposing students to examples of sociological research in schools. Drawing from classic and contemporary scholarship, noted sociologist Alan R. Sadovnik with Ryan W. Coughlan have chosen readings that examine current issues and reflect diverse theoretical approaches to studying the effects of schooling and society. The third edition provides students with nine new readings from some of the best theorists and researchers in education including Sean F. Reardon, Ann Owens, Prudence L. Carter, and Pedro A. Noguera. Through full, rather than excerpted primary source readings, students have the opportunity to read sociological research as it is written and engage in critical analyses of readings in their entirety. This edition features a greater focus on issues of equality and accessibility in schooling for minority students and those with learning disabilities, while an all-new Part IV offers a selection of articles on the shifting social and political factors which have influenced the development of education policy and reform within the last six years. Including comprehensive section introductions, questions for reflection and discussion, and suggested readings, Sociology of Education will stimulate student thinking about the important roles that schools play in contemporary society and their ability to solve fundamental social, economic, and political problems.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Suggested Readings
Part I. Theory and Method in the Sociology of Education
1. Theory and Research in the Sociology of Education
Alan R. Sadovnik
2. On Education and Society
Émile Durkheim
3. Functional and Conflict Theories of Educational Stratification
Randall Collins
4. Broken Promises: School Reform in Retrospect
Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
5. On Understanding the Processes of Schooling: The Contributions of Labeling Theory
Ray C. Rist
6. The Forms of Capital
Pierre Bourdieu
7. Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital
James S. Coleman
8. Class and Pedagogies: Visible and Invisible
Basil Bernstein
9. The Effects of Education as an Institution
John W. Meyer
Part I Suggested Readings
Part II. School Organizations and Processes: Elementary, Secondary, and Post-Secondary Education
10. The Organizational Context of Teaching and Learning: Changing Theoretical Perspectives
Adam Gamoran, Walter G. Secada, and Cora B. Marrett
11. Is There Really a Teacher Shortage?
Richard Ingersoll
12. Tracking: From Theory to Practice
Maureen T. Hallinan
More than Misplaced Technology: A Normative Political Response to Hallinan on Tracking
Jeannie Oakes
13. College-for-All: Do Students Understand What College Demands?
James E. Rosenbaum
14. New Evidence on College Remediation
Paul A. Attewell, David E. Lavin, Thurston Domina, and Tania Levey
15. Whose Markets, Whose Knowledge?
Michael W. Apple
Part II Suggested Readings
Part III. Education, Identity, and Inequality
16. Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families
Annette Lareau
17. "Black" Cultural Capital, Status Positioning, and Schooling Conflicts for Low-Income African American Youth
Prudence L. Carter
18. Behind the Model-Minority Stereotype: Voices of High- and Low-Achieving Asian American Students
Stacey J. Lee
19. Seeking Equity in the Education of California's English Learners
Russell W. Rumberger and Patricia Gándara
20. The Trouble with Black Boys: The Role and Influence of Environmental and Cultural Factors on the Academic Performance of African American Males
Pedro A. Noguera
21. Sociological Understandings of Contemporary Gender Transformations in Schooling in the UK
Madeleine Arnot
22. Eliminating Ableism in Education
Thomas Hehir
Part III Suggested Readings
Part IV. Educational Reform and Policy
23. 60 Years After Brown: Trends and Consequences of School Segregration
Sean F. Reardon and Ann Owens
24. The Radical Restructuring of the State and the Dissolution of the American Economy
Michael Fabricant and Michelle Fine
25. Promise and Peril: Charter School, Urban School Reform, and the Obama Administration
Charles Payne and Tim Knowles
26. Effects of Inequality and Poverty vs. Teachers and Schooling on America's Youth
David C. Berliner
Part IV Suggested Readings
Permissions
Index
