Education and Sociology

by Levinson,David; Levinson,David

• ISBN13: 9780815316152
• ISBN10: 0815316151
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-11-02
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This single-volume reference provides readers and researchers with access to details on a wide range of topics and issues in the sociology of education. Entries cover both national and international perspectives and studies, as well as tackling controversial points in education today, including gender inequality, globalization, minorities, meritocracy, and more. This is a key, one-of-a-kind resource for all educational researchers and educators.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xiii
Preface	xv
List of Contributors	xvii
Education and Sociology: An Introduction	1	(16)
David L. Levinson
Alan R. Sadovnik
Adolescence and Schools	17	(6)
Nancy Lesko
Roberta Jentes-Mason
Jolanda Westerhof-Shultz
Adult Education	23	(6)
Peter Katopes
Affirmative Action in Education	29	(14)
Roslyn Arlin Mickelson
African-American Achievement Motivation	43	(6)
Margaret Hunter
Walter R. Allen
At-Risk Students	49	(6)
Gary Natriello
Bilingual Education	55	(12)
Virginia Vogel Zanger
Brown V. Board of Education	67	(8)
Jennifer L. Hochschild
Catholic Schools	75	(8)
Helen M. Marks
Classroom Processes	83	(6)
Elizabeth G. Cohen
Code Theory, Pedagogic Discourse, and Symbolic Control	89	(10)
Alan R. Sadovnik
Community Colleges	99	(12)
Kevin J. Dougherty
Conflict Theory	111	(4)
Christopher J. Hurn
Cooperative Learning in Elementary and Secondary Schools	115	(6)
Robert E. Slavin
Cultural Capital	121	(4)
Timothy J. Madigan
Curriculum	125	(8)
Adam Gamoran
Curriculum History	133	(8)
Ivor F. Goodson
Desegregation	141	(10)
Stephen Samuel Smith
Desegregation of Higher Education	151	(18)
Faith G. Paul
Economics of Education	169	(12)
Lvar Berg
Educational Achievement and Attainment in the United States	181	(10)
Thomas M. Smith
Educational Assessment	191	(8)
Leslie C. Soodak
Educational Attitudes: Abstract and Concrete	199	(4)
Roslyn Arlin Mickelson
Educational Productivity	203	(8)
Mark Berends
Educational Reform and Sociology in England and Wales	211	(10)
Geoffrey Walford
Educational Reform in the United States: 1980s and 1990s	221	(14)
Alan R. Sadovnik
Peter W. Cookson, Jr.
Susan F. Semel
David L. Levinson
Elites and Educational Reform	235	(6)
Peter W. Cookson, Jr.
Brenda Donly
Equality in Education	241	(6)
Maureen T. Hallinan
Ethnicity	247	(8)
Edith W. King
Ethnography	255	(6)
Peter McLaren
Amanda Datnow
Extracurricular Activities	261	(6)
Pamela Anne Quiroz
Functionalist Theories of Education	267	(6)
Peter W. Cookson, Jr.
Alan R. Sadovnik
Gender and Education	273	(8)
Sara Delamont
Gender and Math Education	281	(8)
Karen Karp
Gender Inequality	289	(6)
Linda Grant
Xue Lan Rong
Gender Inequality in Education: International Comparisons	295	(6)
Karen Bradley
Gender Socialization and Education: Where We've Been and We Might Go	301	(6)
Joan Z. Spade
Globalization	307	(8)
John Boli
High School Dropouts	315	(6)
Aaron M. Pallas
Higher Education	321	(8)
Floyd M. Hammack
Higher Education: International	329	(6)
James C. Hearn
Jan Sandor
Higher Education and Social Equality	335	(8)
Sophia Catsambis
Higher Education in the United States: Access to by Minorities	343	(10)
Thomas M. Smith
Higher Education in the United States: Latinos	353	(6)
Susan Moreno
Chandra Muller
Historically Black Colleges	359	(6)
Joseph O. Jewell
Walter R. Allen
Home Schooling: Contemporary	365	(6)
Maralee Mayberry
Homeless Children and Youth	371	(6)
Roslyn Arlin Mickelson
Human Capital Theory	377	(4)
David L. Levinson
Ideology and Curriculum	381	(6)
Yoshiko Nozaki
Michael W. Apple
Imperialism and Education	387	(6)
Mark B. Ginsburg
Thomas Clayton
International Competition and Education Crises: Cross-National Studies of School Outcomes	393	(6)
David P. Baker
Iq	399	(4)
Christopher J. Hurn
Longitudinal Studies: an Introduction: Opening the Black Box	403	(6)
Kathryn S. Schiller
Longitudinal Studies Data Collection Program	409	(12)
Carl Schmidt
Magnet Schools in Urban Education	421	(8)
Rolf K. Blank
Mass Schooling	429	(6)
Francisco O. Ramirez
Meritocracy	435	(8)
Thomas B. Hoffer
Multiculturalism	443	(8)
Patricia Gandara
Politics of Education	451	(12)
Kevin J. Dougherty
Progressive Education	463	(10)
Susan F. Semel
Quasi-Markets in Education	473	(12)
Geoff Whitty
Race and Education	485	(10)
Roslyn Arlin Mickelson
Restructuring	495	(6)
Peter M. Hall
Patrick J. W. McGinty
School-Based Management: What it is and Does it Make a Diffrence	501	(6)
Priscilla Wohlstetter
Kerri L. Briggs
Amy Van Kirk
School Choice	507	(12)
Amy Stuart Wells
School Effects	519	(6)
Roger C. Shouse
School, Family, and Community Partnerships	525	(8)
Joyce L. Epstein
Mavis G. Sanders
School Textbooks and Cultural Authority	533	(6)
Sandra L. Wong
Single-Sex Education and Coeducation	539	(6)
Helen M. Marks
Social Capital: A Ubiquitous Emerging Conception	545	(6)
Barbara Schneider
Social Reproduction	551	(8)
David Swartz
Sociology of Education as Critical Theory	559	(12)
Michael Young
Sociology of Education: Feminist Perspectives: Continuity and Contestation in the Field	571	(16)
Jo-Anne Dillabough
Modeleine Arnot
Sociology of Education: Marxist Theories	587	(6)
Fred L. Pincus
Sociology of Education: New	593	(6)
Philip Wexler
Sociology of Education: Open System Approach	599	(6)
Jeanne H. Ballantine
Sociology of Education: Postmodernism	605	(8)
Alan R. Sadovnik
Sociology of Education: Theoretical Approaches	613	(6)
Jeane H. Ballantine
Special Education	619	(6)
Hugh Mehan
Jane R. Mercer
Robert Rueda
Sport and Schooling	625	(8)
C. Roger Rees
Structuralism	633	(6)
Paul Atkinson
Student Cultures and Academic Achievement	639	(6)
Sandra L. Wong
Summer Learning	645	(6)
Barbara Heyns
Teacher Assessment and Evaluation	651	(8)
Richard M. Ingersoll
Teacher Burnout	659	(6)
A. Gary Dworkin
Teacher Unions, Old and New	665	(16)
Ronald Henderson
Teachers and Teaching	681	(6)
Bruce J. Biddle
Thomas L. Good
Tracking	687	(6)
Amanda Datnow
Robert Cooper
Urban Schools	693	(12)
Julia Gwynne
Vocational Education	705	(6)
James E. Rosenbaum
Working Parents	711	(6)
Chandra Muller
Index	717