Part I. Families, Schools, and Educational Opportunity.- Chapter 1. Family, Schooling, and Cultural Capital; George Farkas.- Chapter 2. Power, Relationships, and Trust in Sociological Research on Homes, Schools and Communities; Erin McNamara Horvat and Karen Pezzetti.- Chapter 3. Schools and Inequality: Implications from Seasonal Comparison Research; Douglas Downey, Aimee Yoon and Elizabeth Martin.- Part II. The Changing Demographics of Social Inequality.- Chapter 4. Race, Class, and Theories of Inequality in the Sociology of Education; Samuel R. Lucas and Veronique Irwin.- Chapter 5. Educational Achievement and Attainment Differences among Minorities and Immigrants; Phoebe Ho and Grace Kao.- Chapter 6. Gender and Racial/Ethnic Differences in Educational Outcomes; Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Sarah Blanchard Kyte and Karisma Morton.- Chapter 7. Undocumented Youth and Local Contours of Inequality; Roberto Gonzales and Edelina M. Burciaga.- Chapter 8. Sociological Perspectives on First Generation College Students; Irenee Beatty.- Chapter 9. School Experiences and Educational Opportunities for LGBTQ Students; Jennifer Pearson and Lindsey Wilkinson.- Part III. The Social Organization of Schooling and Opportunities for Learning.- Chapter 10. School Choice and Learning Opportunities; Megan Austin and Mark Berends.- Chapter 11. Curricular Differentiation and Its Impact on Different Status Groups Including Immigrants and Students with Disabilities; Jamie M. Carroll and Chandra Muller.- Chapter 12. Teaching Quality; Sean Kelly, Ben Pogodzinski and Yuan Zhang.- Chapter 13. Social Networks and Educational Opportunity; Kenneth Frank, Yun-jia Lo, Kaitlin Torphy and Jihyun Kim.- Chapter 14. The Social Contexts of High Schools; Robert Crosnoe, Lilla Pivnick and Aprile Benner.- Chapter 15. Work Intensity and Academic Success; Jeremy Staff, Jeylan T. Mortimer and Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson.- Part IV. Educational Opportunities and the Transition Into Adulthood.- Chapter 16. Students' Educational Pathways: Aspirations, Decisions, and Constrained Choices along the Education Life Course; Michal Kurlaender and Jacob Hibel.- Chapter 17. Student Experiences in College; Richard Arum, Josipa Roksa, Jacqueline Cruz and Blake Silver.- Chapter 18. The Community College Experience and Educational Equality: Theory, Research, and Policy; Lauren Schudde and Eric Grodsky.- Chapter 19. College-For-All: Alternative Options and Procedures; James Rosenbaum, Caitlin Ahearn and Jennifer Lansing.- Chapter 20. The Future of Higher Education: What's the Life Course Got to Do with It?; Richard A. Settersten, Jr. and Barbara Schneider.- Part V. Sociological Perspectives on Accountability and Evaluation.- Chapter 21. Accountability, Achievement, and Inequality in American Public Schools: A Review of the Literature; Joel Mittleman and Jennifer Jennings.- Chapter 22. Methods for Examining the Effects of School Poverty on Student Test Score Achievement; Douglas Lee Lauen,Brian L. Levy and E. C. Hedberg.- Chapter 23. School and Teacher Effects; Stephen Morgan and Daniel T. Shackelford.- Chapter 24. Experimental Evidence on Interventions to Improve Educational Attainment at Community Colleges; David Monaghan, Tammy Kolbe and Sara Goldrick-Rab.- Chapter 25. Research-Practice Partnerships in Education; Paula Arce-Trigatti, Irina Chukhray and Ruth N. López Turley.
