The Structure of Schooling: Readings in the Sociology of Education

by Arum, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780767410700
• ISBN10: 076741070X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-12
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

This comprehensive reader in the sociology of education examines important topics and exposes students to examples of sociological research on schools. Drawing from classic and contemporary scholarship, the editors have chosen readings that examine current issues and reflect diverse theoretical approaches to studying the effects of schooling on individuals and society.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

PART I. Theoretical and Historical Perspectives

Status Attainment and Social Mobility

Max Weber, The “Rationalization” of Education and Training

Pitirim Sorokin, Social and Cultural Mobility

Ralph H. Turner, Sponsored and Contest Mobility and the School System

Peter M. Blau and Otis D. Duncan, The Process of Stratification

Human, Cultural, and Social Capital

Theodore W. Schultz, Investment in Human Capital

Pierre Bourdieu, Cultural Reproduction and Social Reproduction

James Coleman and Thomas Hoffer, Schools, Families, and Communities

Changing Theories of Education Systems

Emile Durkheim, The First Element of Morality: The Spirit of Discipline

Willard Waller, The School and the Community

Randall Collins, Functional and Conflict Theories of Educational Stratification

Historical Accounts

Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Beyond the Educational Frontier: The Great American Dream Freeze

David Tyack and Elisabeth Hansot, The Rising Tide of Coeducation in High School

PART II. Stratification Within and Between Schools

School Sector

Peter Cookson and Caroline Hodges Persell, The Chosen Ones

Anthony Bryk, Valerie Lee, and Peter Holland, Classroom Life

Racial Segregation and Resource Inequality

James Coleman, Ernest Campbell, Carol Hobson, James McPartland, Alexander Mood, Frederic Weinfeld, and Robert York, The Coleman Report

Christopher Jencks and Marshall Smith, Henry Acland, Mary Jo Bane, David Cohen, Herbert Gintis, Barbara Heyns, Stephan Michelson, Inequality in Educational Attainment

Jonathan Kozol, The Dream Deferred, Again, in San Antonio

Gary Orfield, The Growth of Segregation: African Americans, Latino,s and Unequal Education

Doris R. Entwistle, Karl Alexander, and Linda Olson,

The Nature of Schooling

Tracking

Maureen Hallinan, Tracking: From Theory to Practice

Jeannie Oakes, The Distribution of Knowledge

Adam Gamoran, Is Ability Grouping Equitable?

PART III. Class, Race, and Gender

Class

Hans-Peter Blossfeld and Yossi Shavit, Persisting Barriers: Changes in Educational Opportunities in Thirteen Countries

Paul Willis, Elements of a Culture

Jay MacLeod, Teenagers in Clarendon Heights: The Hallway Hangars and the Brothers

Annette Lareau, Social Class Differences in Family–School Relationships: The Importance of Cultural Capital

Race

Signithia Fordham and John Ogbu, Black Students' School Success: Coping with the Burden of “Acting White”

Amy Stuart Wells and Robert Crain, Consumers of Urban Education

Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips, America's Next Achievement Test: Closing the Black-White Test Score Gap

Gender

Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, Why Does Jane Read and Write So Well? The Anomaly of Women's Achievement

Barrie Thorne, Boys and Girls Together… But Mostly ApartMichael Apple, Teaching and “Women's Work”

PART IV. Student Behavior and Adolescent Subcultures

James Coleman, The Adolescent Culture

Mary Metz, Classroom Interaction: Principled Conflict

John Devine, Schools or “Schools”?: Competing Discourses on Violence

PART V. Education and Life-Course outcomes

James Q. Wilson and Richard J. Herrnstein, Schools

James E. Rosenbaum and Amy Binder, Do Employers Really Need More Educated Youths?

Robert Reich, The Education of the Symbolic Analyst

Richard Arum and Michael Hout, The Early Returns: The Transition from School to Work in the United States

PART VI. The Organizational Environment

The Cultural and Institutional Environment

Joseph Tobin, David Wu, and Dana Davidson, A Comparative Perspective

John W. Meyer, W. Richard Scott, David Strang, and

Andrew L. Creighton, Bureaucratization without Centralization: Changes in the Organizational System of U.S. Public Education, 1940–1980

Stephen Brint and Jerome Karabel, Community Colleges and the American Social Order

John Chubb and Terry Moe, An Institutional Perspective on Schools

The Politics of School Reform

Peter Cookson, Reformers and Revolutionaries: The Drama of Deregulation

David Berliner and Bruce Biddle, Why Now?