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This comprehensive reader examines critical topics on schools and education, and exposes students to examples of sociological research on schools with a focus on the school as community.It draws from classic and contemporary scholarship to examine current issues and diverse theoretical approaches to studying the effects of schooling on individuals and society.

Table of Contents:
I. Theoretical and Historical Perspectives Reading 1 - "The School as a Conservative Force" by Pierre Bordieu Reading 2 - "Schools, Families and Communities" by James Coleman and Thomas Hoffer Reading 3 - "Human Capital" by Gary S. Becker Reading 4 - "Cultural Capital: Allusions, Gapes and Glissandos in Recent Theoretical Developments" by Michelle Lamont and Annette Lareau Reading 5 - "Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families" by Annette Lareau Reading 6 - "Effectively Maintained Inequality: Education Transitions, Track Mobility, and Social Background Effects" by Samuel R. Lucas Reading 7 - "The Long Shadow of Work: Education, The Family, and the Reproduction of the Social Division of Labor" by Samuel Bowles Reading 8 - "The ′Rationalization′ of Education and Training" by Max Weber Reading 9 - "Social and Cultural Mobility" by Pitirim Sorokin Reading 10 - "Sponsored and Contest Mobility and the School System" by Ralph Turner Reading 11 - "Status Attainment Processes" by Archibald Haller and Alejandro Portes Reading 12 - "The Effects of Education as an Institution" by John W. Meyer Reading 13 - "Functional and Conflict Theories of Educational Stratification" by Randall Collins Reading 14 - "The First Element of Morality: The spirit of Discipline" by Emile Durkheim Reading 15 - "The Adolescent Subculture and Academic Achievement" by James Coleman II. Intersecting Identities, Culture, and Inequalities Reading 16 - "Employing Multilevel Intersectionality in Educational Research: Latino Identities, Contexts, and College Access" by A.M. Nuñez Reading 17 - "(No) Harm in Asking: Class, Acquired Cultural Capital, and Academic Engagement at an Elite University" by Anthony Abraham Jack Reading 18 "Exceptions to the Rule: Upwardly Mobile White and Mexican American High School Girls" by Julie Bettie Reading 19 - "Learning to Labor" by Paul Willis Reading 20 - "Privilege" by Shamus Khan Reading 21 "Straddling Boundaries: Identity, Culture, and School" by Prudence L. Carter Reading 22 "Shades of White: White Kids and Racial Identity in High Schools" by Pamela Perry III. Identities and Socialization Reading 23 - "Gender, Education and Society: The Limits and Possibilities of Feminist Reproduction theory" by Jo-Anne Dillabough Reading 24 - "Notes on a Sociology of Bullying: Young Men′s Homophobia as Gender Socialization" by C.J. Pascoe Reading 25 - "Black Students′ School Success: Coping with the Burden of ′Acting White′" by Signithia Fordham and John Ogbu Reading 26 - "It′s Not a Black Thing: Understanding the Burden of Acting White and Other Dilemmas of High Achievement" by Karolyn Tyson, Domini R. Castellino and William Darity, Jr. Reading 27 "Hungry and Homeless in College: Results from a National Study of Basic Needs Insecurity in Higher Education" by Sara Goldrick-Rab, Jed Richardson and Anthony Harnandez IV. Social Structures and School Practices Reading 28 - "Equality of Educational Opportunity: The Coleman Report" by James Coleman, Ernest Campbell, Carol Hobson, James McPartland, Alexander Mood, Frederic Weinfeld and Robert York Reading 29 - "Harming Our Common Future: America′s Segregated Schools by 65 Years After Brown" by Gary Orfield, Erica Frankeberg, Jongyeon Ee and Jennifer B. Ayscue Reading 30 - "The Nature of Schooling" by Doris Entwisle, Karl Alexander and Linda Olson Reading 31 - "The Widening Income Achievement Gap" by Sean Reardon Reading 32 - "Community Colleges and the American Social Order" by Stephen Brint and Jerome Karabel Reading 33 - "Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy" by T.M. Cottom Reading 34 - "Student Planning and Information Problems in Different College Structures" by Anne E. Person James E. Rosenbaum and Regina Deil-Amen Reading 35 - "More Inclusion than Diversion: Expansion, Differentiation and Market Structure in Higher Education" by Richard Arum, Adam Gamoran and Yossi Shavit Reading 36 - "Desegregation without Integration : Tracking, Black Students and Acting White After Brown" by Karolyn Tyson Reading 37 - "Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work" by Jean Anyon Reading 38 - "The State of Undergraduate Learning" by Josipa Roksa and Richard Arum Reading 39 - "Race in the Schoolyard: Negotiating the Color Line in Classrooms and Communities" by Amanda E. Lewis Reading 40 - "Reproducing (and Disrupting) Heteronormativity: Gendered Sexual Socialization in Preschool Classrooms" by Heidi M. Gansen Reading 41 - "Judging School Discipline: A Crisis of Moral Authority" by Richard Arum Reading 42 - "′Tuck in that Shirt!′ Race, Class, Gender and Discipline in an Urban School" by Edward W. Morris Reading 43 - "Disciplining Play: Digital Youth Culture as Capital at School" by Matthew H. Rafalow V. Schools and Organizations Reading 44 - "The Schooled Society: The Educational Transformation of Global Culture" by David P. Baker Reading 45 - "Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites" by Mitchell Stevens Reading 46 - "The (Mis)Education of Monica and Karen" by Laura Hamilton and Elizabeth A. Armstrong Reading 47 - "Education Research that Matters: Influence, Scientific Rigor and Policy Making" by Pamela Barnhouse Walters and Annette Lareau Reading 48 - "Organizing School for Improvement: Lessons from Chicago" by Bryk et al Reading 49 - "Inhabiting Latino Politics: How Colleges Shape Students′ Political Styles" by Daisy Verduzco Reyes Reading 50 - "Leadership Matters: Teachers′ Roles in School Decision Making and School Performance" by Richard M. Ingersoll, Philip Sirinides, and Patrick Dougherty

About the Author :
Richard Arum has recently served as Professor of Sociology and Education at New York University; Program Director of Education Research at the Social Science Research Council; and Senior Fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. His past work with various co-authors includes Aspiring Adults Adrift: Tentative Transitions of College Graduates (University of Chicago Press, 2014); Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses (University of Chicago Press, 2011); Judging School Discipline: The Crisis of Moral Authority (Harvard University Press, 2003); Stratification in Higher Education: A Comparative Study (Stanford University Press, 2007); and Improving Learning Environments: School Discipline and Student Achievement in Comparative Perspective (Stanford University Press, 2012). Irenee Beattie is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of California, Merced. Her research examines racial/ethnic, gender, and class inequalities in adolescent transitions to adulthood as well as how families, high schools, and colleges can foster beneficial social capital among underrepresented college student populations. Her research has been funded by the American Educational Research Association and the Hellman Faculty Fellows Fund. She has published in various outlets such as Sociology of Education, Youth & Society, and Harvard University Press. Karly Ford is an Assistant Professor at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on the relationship between education and social stratification. She received a Masters of Education in International Education Policy from Harvard University in 2007 and a Ph.D. in Sociology of Education from New York University in 2014. Ford′s research interests are Higher Education, Sociology of Education, International Comparative Education, Institutional Variation, and Educational Assessment.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781506348742
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: SAGE Publications Inc
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 187 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1506348742
  • Publisher Date: 14 May 2020
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 231 mm
  • No of Pages: 688
  • Sub Title: Readings in the Sociology of Education


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