Contemporary Research in the Sociology of Education
Author: John Eggleston
Publisher: Methuen Publishing
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13:
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Contemporary Research in the Sociology of Education (RLE Edu L)
Author: John Eggleston
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-05-13
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 1136468595
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe subject matter of this book – what happens in schools, the effects of curriculum change, the reasons why some children are successful and others are not – explains just why the sociology of education is one of the most important areas to achieve political importance. There are five sections to the book covering: Educational Achievement; Educational Provision; The Organization of the School; Roles in the School and Values and Learning. The editor discusses the implications of the material presented (much of which was available for the first time when this book was originally published).
The Sociology of Educational Inequality (RLE Edu L)
Author: William Tyler
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-05-16
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 1136462228
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is the most significant factor for explaining why some individuals are more successful than others – genetic inheritance, privileged background or luck? Although conventional approaches stress the prime importance of one of these, Tyler argues that such theories fail to deal adequately with the complexity of educational inequality and suggests that Boudon’s model of opportunity and mobility would provide us with a more productive explanation. By applying this model to post-war British education he shows how we might effectively think our approaches to the ‘cycle of deprivation’, comprehensive reform and educational spending.
Doing Sociology of Education (RLE Edu L)
Author: Geoffrey Walford
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-05-16
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1136462082
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of specially commissioned articles exposes the practical and personal influences on the process of doing sociology of education. All of the authors have been involved in conducting well know major research projects, and discuss here the pitfalls and problems, conflicts and compromises that went into doing their particular research. A particular feature of the book is that a wide variety of types of research in the sociology of education is covered. The range is from small-scale ethnographic case studies to large-scale postal questionnaire sample surveys and includes studies based on interviews, observation and questionnaires. There are examples of longitudinal work in case studies and in surveys. The collection also includes discussions of action research, the development and influence of theory, and the relationship between research and policy.
Social Control and Education (RLE Edu L)
Author: Brian Davies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-05-04
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1136470697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSocial control is a central sociological concept which has generated many influential ‘models’ of man in society. This book examines these major models, and examines the rise of compulsory schooling in Britain and the USA and shows us which aspects of education and social control have been elaborated or neglected in the sociology of education down to the mid 1970s.
Educability, Schools and Ideology (RLE Edu L)
Author: MICHAEL Flude
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-05-13
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1136470417
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe sociology of education has been at the forefront of new developments in sociological theory. This book examines and criticizes a number of these new developments and discusses some empirical work on issues of current concern. One of the few books that integrates radical and critical sociology into the field of education, it deals with the resultant difficulties. The topics covered include cultural deprivation, ideologies in education, classrooms, the teaching profession and the history of women’s education.
Sociology and the School (RLE Edu L)
Author: Peter Woods
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-05-16
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1136465022
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an introduction to interactionist work in education during the 1970s and 80s. The interactionist viewpoint concentrates on how people construct meanings in the ebb and flow of everyday life – what they think and do, how they react to one another – and has in recent years established itself as one of the leading approaches in education. It has generated illuminating research studies which, by being firmly based in the real world of teaching and dealing with the fine-grained details of school life, have helped to break down the barriers between teacher and researcher. This volume presents the results of this valuable work, within a coherent theoretical framework, by focusing on the major interactionist concepts of situation, perspectives, cultures, strategies, negotiation and careers. By bringing them together in this way, the author demonstrates their collective potential for the deeper understanding of school life and the possibilities for sociological theory. His book therefore offers both a summary of and a reflection on achievement in the area of interactionism as it relates to schools.
Working Class Community
Author: Brian Jackson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780415176392
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The Credential Society
Author: Randall Collins
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2019-05-28
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0231549784
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Credential Society is a classic on the role of higher education in American society and an essential text for understanding the reproduction of inequality. Controversial at the time, Randall Collins’s claim that the expansion of American education has not increased social mobility, but rather created a cycle of credential inflation, has proven remarkably prescient. Collins shows how credential inflation stymies mass education’s promises of upward mobility. An unacknowledged spiral of the rising production of credentials and job requirements was brought about by the expansion of high school and then undergraduate education, with consequences including grade inflation, rising educational costs, and misleading job promises dangled by for-profit schools. Collins examines medicine, law, and engineering to show the ways in which credentialing closed these high-status professions to new arrivals. In an era marked by the devaluation of high school diplomas, outcry about the value of expensive undergraduate degrees, and the proliferation of new professional degrees like the MBA, The Credential Society has more than stood the test of time. In a new preface, Collins discusses recent developments, debunks claims that credentialization is driven by technological change, and points to alternative pathways for the future of education.
Paradigm and Ideology in Educational Research (RLE Edu L)
Author: Thomas Popkewitz
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-05-04
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1136465790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the complex social assumptions and values that underlie research programmes about schools. The analysis of educational research draws upon American and European scholarships in the sociology of knowledge, social philosophy and the history and sociology of science. The discussion considers first the communal, crafts and social characteristics of educational research. Three research models empirical-analytic, symbolic or linguistic and critical sciences are given attention. The discussion of the three research models is to illuminate how the constellation of commitments, assumptions and practices inter-relate to perform a paradigm giving different and conflicting definitions to the meaning of educational theory and to the use of the particular techniques of enquiry. The social role of educational research and the researcher is also considered.
