The Sociology of Education
The Sociology of Education

Author: Jeanne Ballantine

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-07-22

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 1317348508

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Putting Sociology to Work; Chapter 4 Gender, Race, and Class: Attempts to Achieve Equality of Educational Opportunity; Gender and Equality of Educational Opportunity; Class, Race, and Attempts to Rectify Inequalities in Educational Opportunity; Integration Attempts; Educational Experience of Selected Minorities in the United States; Improving Schools for Minority Students; Summary; Putting Sociology to Work; Chapter 5 The School as an Organization; The Social System of the School; Goals of the School System; The School as an Organization.

Sociology of Education
Sociology of Education

Author: Tomas Boronski

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2015-09-26

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1473934079

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‘An essential student-friendly text for Education Studies.’ Dr Gillian Forrester, Subject Head for Education & Early Childhood Studies, Liverpool John Moores University ‘Introducing students to the complexities of Education Studies is a difficult task and this book will go a long way to making it easier. I will definitely be recommending this to all my students.’ Kevin Brain, Programme Leader, Education Studies, Leeds Trinity University This textbook explains the basic principles of sociology and relates these concepts to today’s society and education system in order to deepen your understanding of how these issues affect our lives and the world we live in, encouraging you to think critically and to develop a ‘sociological imagination’. Coverage includes: the wider political and economic context for education in the UK, including an analysis of the reforms of the 2010 coalition government childhood, schooling and pupil voice non-traditional consideration of critical pedagogy, ‘race’ and gender the role of education in a multicultural society inequalities in educational opportunity in terms of class, ethnicity and disability. This is essential reading for students on undergraduate Education Studies degrees, and for sociology courses covering educational issues.

Fundamentals of Sociology of Education
Fundamentals of Sociology of Education

Author: Lucy Wairimu Kibera

Publisher: University of Nairobi Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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Education as a process through which a society's way of life is transmitted to the incoming generation is interactive and takes place under different environments. Fundamentals of Sociology of Education with Reference to Africa is about processes, practices, and agencies involved in socialisation and education, particularly the ways in which schools, through their teachers, curricula and organisation, influence the young. Lucy W. Kibera is an Associate Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Nairobi. She holds a PhD and a Master of Education from Kenyatta University; a Bachelor of Arts (Philosophy) and a Bachelor of Arts (Psychology), York University, Canada; and a Bachelor of Education, Makerere University, Uganda. She has authored several children's books and has served as Chairperson of Department of Educational Foundations, University of Nairobi and Dean, School of Education, University of Nairobi. Angnes Kimokoti has a PhD in Sociology of Education from Kenyatta University, Nairobi. She was a senior lecturer in the Department of Educational Foundations, Faculty of Education, University of Nairobi 1997-2002.

The Credential Society
The Credential Society

Author: Randall Collins

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2019-05-28

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 0231549784

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The 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.

Handbook of the Sociology of Education
Handbook of the Sociology of Education

Author: Maureen T. Hallinan

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-11-24

Total Pages: 579

ISBN-13: 0387364242

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This wide-ranging handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the field of education as viewed from a sociological perspective. Experts in the area present theoretical and empirical research on major educational issues and analyze the social processes that govern schooling, and the role of schools in and their impact on contemporary society. A major reference work for social scientists who want an overview of the field, graduate students, and educators.

Schools and Society
Schools and Society

Author: Jeanne H. Ballantine

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2017-10-25

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 1544302398

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The authors are proud sponsors of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop. This comprehensive anthology features classical readings on the sociology of education, as well as current, original essays by notable contemporary scholars. Assigned as a main text or a supplement, this fully updated Sixth Edition uses the open systems approach to provide readers with a framework for understanding and analyzing the book’s range of topics. Jeanne H. Ballantine, Joan Z. Spade, and new co-editor Jenny M. Stuber, all experienced researchers and instructors in this subject, have chosen articles that are highly readable, and that represent the field’s major theoretical perspectives, methods, and issues. The Sixth Edition includes twenty new selections and five revisions of original readings and features new perspectives on some of the most contested issues in the field today, such as school funding, gender issues in schools, parent and neighborhood influences on learning, growing inequality in schools, and charter schools.

Education and Society
Education and Society

Author: Rob Moore

Publisher: Polity

Published: 2004-11-12

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780745617091

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This new book is a lively and highly accessible introduction to the sociology of education. Written in a clear and comprehensible way, it introduces students to the key theoretical perspectives and conceptual frameworks in the sociology of education, and provides a guide to contemporary issues and current debates. The book reviews the ways in which sociology contributes to our understanding of the relationship between education and society. The sociology of education is treated in historical depth, dealing with the classic thinkers as well as with contemporary approaches and issues. In doing so, it critically engages with wider debates in social theory. There is an extensive treatment of Durkheim and of the work of Bourdieu and Bernstein, as well as discussion of post-modernism drawing upon recent ideas in epistemology and philosophy of science to address the question: What should we teach? The book covers the macro relationships between education and the economy and state and the micro processes of the classroom and school. A central concern is with inequalities of class, gender and race and their treatment by different sociological perspectives. Education and Society will be an essential text for students of sociology and education.

The Sociology of Education and Work
The Sociology of Education and Work

Author: David B. Bills

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

Published: 2004-09-24

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9780631223634

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A study of the links between schooling and the workplace in modern society. It explains how these links have developed over time, what broad social trends are transforming them now, and offers some empirically-based projections about how these relationships are likely to develop in the future.

The Structure of Schooling
The Structure of Schooling

Author: Richard Arum

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 801

ISBN-13: 1452205426

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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.