The Social Organization Of Schooling

by Hedges, Larry V.; Schneider, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780871543400
• ISBN10: 0871543400
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-05-30
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation

Summary

Presents an analysis of the social environment of schools.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Foreword	xi
Larry V. Hedges
Barbara Schneider
Introduction The Social Organization of Schools	1	(12)
Barbara Schneider
PART I THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIOLOGY AND THE STUDY OF EDUCATION	13	(36)
A Sociological Agenda for Research on Education	15	(22)
Charles E. Bidwell
Ecosystems and the Structuring of Organizations	37	(12)
W. Richard Scott
PART II TEACHING AS A PROFESSION	49	(78)
Teaching and the Competence of Occupations	51	(21)
Robert Dreeben
The Prospects for Teaching as a Profession	72	(19)
Susan Moore Johnson
The Anomaly of Educational Organizations and the Study of Organizational Control	91	(20)
Richard M. Ingersoll
Professional Community by Design: Building Social Capital Through Teacher Professional Development	111	(16)
Adam Gamoran
Ramona Gunter
Tona Williams
PART III THE MICROSOCIOLOGY OF SCHOOLS AND CLASSROOMS	127	(98)
The Normative Culture of a School and Student Socialization	129	(18)
Maureen T. Hallinan
Why Work When You Can Play? Dynamics of Formal and Informal Organization in Classrooms	147	(28)
Daniel A. McFarland
School Organization, Curricular Structure, and the Distribution and Effects of Instruction for Tenth-Grade Science	175	(25)
Robert A. Petrin
Subgroups as Meso-Level Entities in the Social Organization of Schools	200	(25)
Kenneth A. Frank
Yong Zhao
PART IV CHANGE IN SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS	225	(96)
The Cross-National Context of the Gender Gap in Math and Science	227	(17)
Catherine Riegle-Crumb
Organizational Coupling, Control, and Change: The Role of Higher-Order Models of Control in Educational Reform	244	(26)
Christopher B. Swanson
Achievement and Equity	270	(14)
Chandra Muller
Kathryn S. Schiller
School Transition Programs in Organizational Context: Problems of Recruitment, Coordination, and Integration	284	(17)
Kathryn S. Schiller
Mobilizing Community Resources to Reform Failing Schools	301	(20)
Lori Diane Hill
References	321	(36)
Index	357