Handbook of the Sociology of Education (Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research)

✍ Scribed by Maureen T. Hallinan

Publisher: Springer
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Leaves: 579
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This wide-ranging handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the field of education as viewed from a sociological perspective. Experts in the area present theoretical and empirical research on major educational issues and analyze the social processes that govern schooling, and the role of schools in and their impact on contemporary society. A major reference work for social scientists who want an overview of the field, graduate students, and educators.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 12
Introduction: Sociology of Education at the Threshold of the Twenty-first Century......Page 15
I. THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ORIENTATIONS......Page 27
1. School as Context and Construction: A Social Psychological Approach to the Study of Schooling......Page 28
2. The Organizational Context of Teaching and Learning: Changing Theoretical Perspectives......Page 50
3. On the Linkages between Sociology of Race and Ethnicity and Sociology of Education......Page 77
4. Research and Theory on Equality and Education......Page 97
5. Structural Effects in Education: A History of an Idea......Page 118
6. School Effects: Theoretical and Methodological Issues......Page 147
II. DEVELOPMENT AND EXPANSION OF EDUCATION......Page 171
7. Development and Education......Page 172
8. The Content of the Curriculum: An Institutionalist Perspective......Page 197
9. Comparative and Historical Patterns of Education......Page 220
10. The Limits of Growth: School Expansion and School Reform in Historical Perpective......Page 247
III. THE STUDY OF ACCESS TO SCHOOLING......Page 268
11. Equitable Classrooms in a Changing Society......Page 269
12. Connecting Home, School, and Community: New Directions for Social Research......Page 288
13. The Variable Construction of Educational Risk......Page 310
IV. THE STUDY OF SCHOOL ORGANIZATION......Page 327
14. School Size and the Organization of Secondary Schools......Page 328
15. Comparative Sociology of Classroom Processes, School Organization, and Achievement......Page 346
16. Social Systems and Norms: A Coleman Approach......Page 366
17. Values, Control, and Outcomes in Public and Private Schools......Page 387
V. THE STUDY OF SCHOOL OUTCOMES......Page 408
18. Interactions between High Schools and Labor Markets......Page 409
19. Vocational Secondary Education, Tracking, and Social Stratification......Page 435
20. Transition from School to Work in Comparative Perspective......Page 451
21. Pathways from School to Work in Germany and the United States......Page 473
22. The Effects of Schooling on Individual Lives......Page 496
VI. POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION......Page 523
23. Accountability in Education......Page 524
Tribute to David Lee Stevenson......Page 539
24. The Fit and Misfit of Sociological Research and Educational Policy......Page 540
B......Page 557
D......Page 559
F......Page 560
H......Page 561
K......Page 562
L......Page 563
M......Page 564
P......Page 565
S......Page 566
W......Page 568
Z......Page 569
A......Page 570
C......Page 571
D......Page 572
E......Page 573
I......Page 574
N......Page 575
R......Page 576
S......Page 577
T......Page 578
Y......Page 579

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