Schools and society: a sociological approach to education

Preface

About the Editors

Introduction

Chapter 1. What is Sociology of Education? Theoretical Perspectives

Reading 1. Sociology of Education: A Unique Perspective for Understanding Schools / Jeanne H. Ballantine / Floyd M. Hammock

Reading 2. Getting Started: Understanding Education Through Sociological Theory / Jeanne H. Ballantine / Joan Z. Spade

Reading 3. The School Class as a Social System / Talcott Parsons

Reading 4. Conflict Theory of Educational Stratification / Randall Collins

Reading 5. On Understanding the Processes of Schooling: The Contributions of Labeling Theory / Ray C. Rist

Chapter 2. Studying Schools: Research Methods in Education

Reading 6. Chilly Classrooms for Female Undergraduate Students: A Question of Method? / Elizabeth J. Allan / Mary Madden

Reading 7. Small Class Size and Its Effects / Bruce J. Biddle / David C. Berliner

Reading 8. How to Avoid Statistical Traps / Gerald W. Bracey

Chapter 3. Schooling in a Social Context: Educational Environments

Reading 9. The Structure of Educational Organizations / John W. Meyer / Brian Rowan

Reading 10. A Broader and Bolder Approach Uses Education to Break the Cycle of Poverty / Pedro A. Noguera

Reading 11. Exit Exams Harm Students Who Fail Them-and Don't Benefit Students Who Pass Them / John Robert Warren / Eric Grodsky

Reading 12. School Finance: Raising Questions for Urban Schools / Augustina H. Reyes / Gloria M. Rodriguez

Reading 13. Religion in the Schools / Edwin C. Darden

Chapter 4. Schools as Organizations: Formal and Informal Education

Reading 14. How Schools Work / Rebecca Barr / Robert Dreeben

Reading 15. School Boards: Why American Education Needs Them / Michael A. Resnick / Anne L. Biyant

Reading 16. Classroom Ordering and the Situational Imperatives of Routine and Ritual / David Diehl / Daniel A. McFarland

Reading 17. Learning the Student Role: Kindergarten as Academic Boot Camp / Hany L. Gracey

Reading 18. Organizing Schools for Improvement / Anthony S. Bryk

Chapter 5. Roles and Responsibilities: Administrators, Teachers, and Students

Reading 19. School Principal: Complications and Complexities / Dan C. Lortie

Reading 20. The Status of Teaching as a Profession / Richard M. Ingersoll / Elizabeth Merrill

Reading 21. Does School Accountability Alter Teacher Trust and Promote Burnout? / Anthony Gaiy Dworkin / Pamela F. Tobe

Reading 22. School Belonging and School Misconduct: The Differing Role of Teacher and Peer Attachment / Jannick Demanet / Mieke Van Houtte

Reading 23. Low-Level Violence: A Neglected Aspect of School Culture / David R. Dupper / Nancy Meyer-Adams

Reading 24. Dropping Out: Why Students Drop Out of High School and What Can Be Done About It / Russell W. Rumberger

Chapter 6. What We Teach in Schools: Knowledge for What and for Whom?

Reading 25. Being Sociological About Knowledge: Setting the Agenda / Rob Moore

Reading 26. Monuments Between Covers: The Politics of Textbooks / David Tyack

Reading 27. Facts or Critical Thinking Skills? What NAEP Results Say / Harold Wenglinsky

Chapter 7. Who Gets Ahead? Race, Class, and Gender in Education

Reading 28. The Geography of Inequality: Why Separate Means Unequal in American Public Schools / John R. Logan / Elisabeta Minca / Sinem Adar

Reading 29. The Duality of Courses and Students: A Field-Theoretic Analysis of Secondary School Course-Taking / Joseph J. Ferrare

Reading 30. Beyond the Schoolyard: The Role of Parenting Logics, Financial Resources, and Social Institutions in the Social Class Gap in Structured Activity Participation / Pamela R. Bennett / Amy C. Lntz / Lakshmi Jayaram

Reading 31. Explaining Racial Variations in Education / Caroline Hodges Persell

Reading 32. "Rednecks," "Rutters," and 'Rithmetic: Social Class, Masculinity, and Schooling in a Rural Context / Edward W. Morris

Reading 33. Gender and Education / Roslyn Arlin Mickelson

Chapter 8. Education and Opportunity: Attempts at Equality and Equity in Education

Reading 34. Lessons Forgotten / Gary Orfield

Reading 35. Only Here for a Day: Social Integration of Minority Students at a Majority White High School / Megan M. Holland

Reading 36. Charter Schools and the Public Good / Linda A. Renzulli / Vincent J. Roscigno

Reading 37. Organizing for Success: From Inequality to Quality / Linda Darling-Hammond

Reading 38. How Schools Really Matter / Douglas B. Downey / Benjamin G. Gibbs

Reading 39. Can Schooling Contribute to a More Just Society? / Michael W. Apple

Chapter 9. Higher Education

Reading 40. The Unintended Decentering of Teaching and Learning / Gaye Tuchman

Reading 41. The Community College: The Impact, Origin, and Future of a Contradictory Institution / Kevin J. Dougherty / Vanessa S. Morest

Reading 42. The (Mis)Education of Monica and Karen / Laura Hamilton / Elizabeth A. Armstrong

Reading 43. No Margin for Error: Educational and Occupational Achievement Among Disadvantaged Children of Immigrants / Alejandro Portes / Patricia Fernández-Kelly

Reading 44. Bologna Beyond 2010: Looking Backward, Looking Forward / Fiona Hunter

Chapter 10. Globalization and Education: Comparing Global Systems

Reading 45. Educating All Children: A Global Agenda / Joel E. Cohen / David E. Bloom / Martin B. Malin / Helen Anne Curry

Reading 46. Inexcusable Absence: Who Are the Out-of-School Girls-and What Can Be Done to Get Them in School? / Maureen A. Lewis / Marlaine E. Lockheed

Reading 47. Globalization and the Growth of International Educational Testing and Assessment / David H. Kamens / Connie L. McNeely

Reading 48. Transitions From Education to Work: An Introduction / Rachel Brooks

Chapter 11. Can Schools Change? Educational Reform and Change

Reading 49. Learning From Abroad / Ben Levin / Robert B. Schwartz / Adam Gamoran

Reading 50. Progressive Social Movements and Educational Equity / Jean Anyon

Reading 51. Deschooling Society / Ivan Illich

Reading 52. In the Future, Diverse Approaches to Schooling / Paul Hill / Mike Johnston

Concluding Remarks

Appendix: Web Resources for Continued Exploration of the Topics in This Book