Edited by Jeanne H. Ballantine and Joan Z. Spade
| PART ONE - What is Sociology of Education? Theory and Methods
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| 1. |
Getting Started: Understanding Education Through Theory |
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| Jeanne H. Ballantine and Joan Z. Spade |
| 2. |
Contemporary Perspectives in the Sociology of Education |
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| Alan R. Sadovnik |
| 3. |
Moral Education |
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| Emile Durkheim |
| 4. |
Conflict Theory of Educational Stratification |
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| Randall Collins |
| 5. |
Schooling in Capitalist Societies |
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| Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis |
| 6. |
Bridges to the Future: Contributions of Qualitative Research to the Sociology of Education |
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| Carolyn Riehl |
| 7. |
How to Avoid Statistical Traps |
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| Gerald W. Bracey |
| PART TWO - School Organization and Roles
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| 8. |
How Schools Work |
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| Rebecca Barr and Robert Dreeban |
| 9. |
The School Class as a Social System |
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| Talcott Parsons |
| 10. |
Small Class Size and its Effects |
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| Bruce J. Biddle and David C. Berliner |
| 11. |
Forms of Capital and the Construction of Leadership: Instructional Leadership in Urban Elementary Schools |
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| James P. Spillane, Tim Hallett, and John B. Diamond |
| 12. |
The Status of Teaching as a Profession |
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| Richard M. Ingersoll and David Perda |
| 13. |
School Reform and Teacher Burnout |
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| A. Gary Dworkin |
| PART THREE - Students and the Informal System
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| 14. |
Learning the Student Role: Kindergarten as Academic Boot Camp |
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| Harry L. Gracey |
| 15. |
Real School : A Universal Drama among Disparate Experience |
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| Mary Haywood Metz |
| 16. |
Straddling Boundaries: Identity, Culture, and School |
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| Prudence L. Carter |
| 17. |
Low-Level Violence: A Neglected Aspect of School Culture |
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| David R. Dupper and Nancy Meyer-Adams |
| 18. |
The Dropout Problem: Losing Ground |
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| Paul E. Barton |
| PART FOUR - Social Construction of Knowledge
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| 19. |
The New Sociology of Knowledge |
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| Ann Swidler and Jorge Arditi |
| 20. |
Romeo and Juliet Were Just Good Friends |
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| Joan DelFattore |
| 21. |
American in World War II: An analysis of history textbooks from England, Japan, Sweden, and the United States |
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| Stuart Foster and Jason Nicholls |
| 22. |
Facts or Critical Thinking Skills? What the NAEP results say |
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| Harold Wenglinsky |
| PART FIVE - Schooling in Social Context: Educational Environments |
| 23. |
The Structure of Educational Organizations |
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| John W. Meyer and Brian Rowan |
| 24. |
Marital Transitions, Parenting, and Schooling: Exploring the Link between Family-Structure History and Adolescents' Academic Status |
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| Shannon E. Cavanagh, Kathryn S. Schiller and Catherine Riegle-Crumb |
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Adolescents' Extracurricular Participation in Context: The Mediating Effects of Schools, Communities, and Identity |
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| Andrew Guest and Barbara Schneider |
| 26. |
No Child Left Behind |
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| Kathryn M. Borman and Bridget A. Cotner |
| 27. |
Disparities Within: Unequal Spending and Achievement in an Urban School District |
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| Dennis J. Condron and Vincent J. Roscigno |
| PART SIX - Social Stratification and Schools |
| 28. |
Schools: The Great Equalizer and the Key to the American Dream |
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| Heather Beth Johnson |
| 29. |
Tracking in Mathematics and Science: Courses and Course Selection Procedures |
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| Joan Z. Spade, Lynn Columba, and Beth E. Vanfossen |
| 30. |
How Race and Education are Related |
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| Caroline Hodges Persell |
| 31. |
Moments of Inclusion and Exclusion: Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in Family-School Relationships |
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| Annette Lareau and Erin McNamara Horvat |
| 32. |
'Tuck in that shirt!': Race, class, gender and discipline in an urban school |
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| Edward W. Morris |
| 33. |
Gender and Education |
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| Roslyn Arlin Mickelson |
| PART SEVEN - Efforts toward Equality and Equity in Education |
| 34. |
The Segregation and Resegregation of American Public Education |
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| Erwin Chermerinsky |
| 35. |
Learning through Experience: What Graduates Gained by Attending Desegregated High Schools |
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| Jennifer Jellison Holme, Amy Stuart Wells, and Anita Tijerina Revilla |
| 36. |
Charter Schools and the Public Good |
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| Linda A. Renzulli and Vincent J. Roscigno |
| 37. |
The Achievement Gap: A Broader Picture |
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| Richard Rothstein |
| 38. |
Early childhood Education and Care in Advanced Industrialized Countries: Current Policy and Program Trends |
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| Sheila B. Kamerman |
| PART EIGHT - Higher Education |
| 39. |
The Stratification of the Academy |
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| Zelda F. Gamson |
| 40. |
The Battle Over Merit |
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| Jerome Karabel |
| 41. |
The Community College: The Impact, Origin, and Future of a Contradictory Institution |
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| Kevin J. Dougherty |
| 42. |
Blacks in College: Past and Present |
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| Sarah Susannah Willie " |
| 43. |
Changes in the Status and Functions of women's colleges over time |
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| Leslie Miller-Bernal |
| 44. |
Reshaping the University in an Era of Globalization |
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| Alan Ruby |
| PART NINE - Education in an International Context |
| 45. |
National Differences, Global Similarities: World Culture and the Future of Schooling |
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| David P. Baker and Gerald K. LeTendre |
| 46. |
The Content of the Curriculum: An Institutional Perspective |
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| Elizabeth H. McEneaney and John W. Meyer (moved from Part IV) |
| 47. |
Education and Social Stratification Processes in Comparative Perspective |
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| Alan C. Kerckhoff |
| 48. |
The Case for Universal Basic Education for the World's Poorest Boys and Girls |
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| Gene B. Sperling |
| 49. |
What Does Globalization Mean for Educational Change? |
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| Martin Carnoy and Diana Rhoten |
| PART TEN - Educational Reform and Change |
| 50. |
Tinkering Toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform |
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| David Tyack and Larry Cuban |
| 51. |
Wider Contexts and Future Issues: National Standards and School Reform in Japan and the United States |
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| Thomas P. Rohlen |
| 52. |
Radical Possibilities: Putting Education at the Center |
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| Jean Anyon |
| 53. |
Deschooling Society |
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| Ivan Illich |
