Sociology of Education

by Torres, Carlos Alberto; Mitchell, Theodore R.

• ISBN13: 9780791437551
• ISBN10: 0791437558
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Sociology of Education discusses emerging theoretical and methodological approaches to the field of sociology of education. These emerging perspectives focus on the scholarship of class, race, gender and the state in education, and open up new avenues for theoretical and empirical work in the field. Anyone concerned with issues of quality and equality of educational opportunities and the social context of education will find Sociology of Education not only exciting but also useful in promoting new ways of thinking about and acting upon educational reform.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction	1	(18)
Carlos Alberto Torres
Theodore R. Mitchell
2. Education and the Reproduction of Class, Gender, and Race: Responding to the Postmodern Challenge	19	(28)
Raymond A. Morrow
Carlos Alberto Torres
3. The Sociology of Knowledge and the Sociology of Education: Michel Foucault and Critical Traditions	47	(44)
Thomas S. Popkewitz
4. Becoming Right: Education and the Formation of Conservative Movements	91	(30)
Michael W. Apple
Anita Oliver
5. Social Closure, Professional Domination, and the New Middle Strata: Rethinking Credentialist Theories of Education	121	(22)
Raymond A. Morrow
Carlos Alberto Torres
6. Critical Pedagogy as Performative Practice: Memories of Whiteness	143	(12)
Henry A. Giroux
7. Tracking, Detracking, and the Politics of Educational Reform: A Sociological Perspective	155	(26)
Amy Stuart Wells
Jeannie Oakes
8. Structuring College Opportunities: A Cross-Case Analysis of Organizational Cultures, Climates, and Habiti	181	(30)
Patricia M. McDonough
9. Critical Race Theory: Marginality and the Experience of Students of Color in Higher Education	211	(14)
Daniel G. Solorzano
Octavio Villalpando
10. Historical Perspectives on Class and Race in Education: The Case of School Reform in the New South, 1890-1910	225	(22)
Theodore R. Mitchell
11. From Soweto to the South Bronx: African Americans and Colonial Education in the United States	247	(18)
Gloria Ladson-Billings
Contributors	265	(4)
Index	269