The Structure of Schooling
Readings in the Sociology of Education
3rd Edition
Published on 15. January 2015
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Paperback/Softback
800 pages
978-1-4522-0542-7 (ISBN)
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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.
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3rd Revised edition
Language
English
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Thousand Oaks
United States
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College/higher education
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Revised edition
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Height: 232 mm
Width: 187 mm
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1186 gr
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978-1-4522-0542-7 (9781452205427)
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Richard Arum | Irenee R. Beattie | Karly Ford
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Persons
Richard Arum has recently served as Professor of Sociology and Education at New York University; Program Director of Education Research at the Social Science Research Council; and Senior Fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. His past work with various co-authors includes Aspiring Adults Adrift: Tentative Transitions of College Graduates (University of Chicago Press, 2014); Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses (University of Chicago Press, 2011); Judging School Discipline: The Crisis of Moral Authority (Harvard University Press, 2003); Stratification in Higher Education: A Comparative Study (Stanford University Press, 2007); and Improving Learning Environments: School Discipline and Student Achievement in Comparative Perspective (Stanford University Press, 2012). Irenee Beattie is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of California, Merced. Her research examines racial/ethnic, gender, and class inequalities in adolescent transitions to adulthood as well as how families, high schools, and colleges can foster beneficial social capital among underrepresented college student populations. Her research has been funded by the American Educational Research Association and the Hellman Faculty Fellows Fund. She has published in various outlets such as Sociology of Education, Youth & Society, and Harvard University Press. Karly Ford is an Assistant Professor at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on the relationship between education and social stratification. She received a Masters of Education in International Education Policy from Harvard University in 2007 and a Ph.D. in Sociology of Education from New York University in 2014. Ford's research interests are Higher Education, Sociology of Education, International Comparative Education, Institutional Variation, and Educational Assessment.
Content
I. Theoretical and Historical Perspectives
A. Status Attainment and Social Mobility
Reading 1: The "Rationalization" of Education and Training by Max Weber
Reading 2: Social and Cultural Mobility by Pitirim Sorokin
Reading 3: Sponsored and Contest Mobility and the School System by Ralph H. Turner
Reading 4: Status Attainment Processes by Archibald O. Haller and Alejandro Portes
B. Human Capital, Cultural Capital, and Social Capital
Reading 5: Human Capital by Gary S. Becker
Reading 6: Cultural Capital: Allusions, Gaps, and Glissandos in Recent Theoretical Developments by Michele Lamont and Annette Lareau
Reading 7: Schools, Families, and Communities by James Coleman and Thomas Hoffer
C. Changing Theories of Education Systems
Reading 8: The First Element of Morality: The Spirit of Discipline by Emile Durkheim
Reading 9: The School and the Community by Willard Waller
Reading 10: Functional and Conflict Theories of Educational Stratification by Randall Collins
Reading 11: The Long Shadow of Work by Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis and Meyers
II. Stratification Within and Between Schools
A. Resource Inequality and Racial Segregation
Reading 12: Privilege by Shamus Khan
Reading 13: Equality of Educational Opportunity: The Coleman Report by James Coleman, Ernest Campbell, Carol Hobson, James McPartland, Alexander Mood, Frederic Weinfeld, and Robert York
Reading 14: The Effects of High Schools on Their Students by Christopher S. Jencks and Marsha D. Brown
Reading 15: E Pluribus...Separation by Gary Orfield, John Kucsera and Genevieve Siegel-Hawley
Reading 16: The Nature of Schooling by Doris R. Entwisle, Karl L. Alexander, and Linda Olson
Reading 17:Desegregation Without Integration: Tracking, Black Students, and Acting White After Brown by Karolyn Tyson
Reading 18: The Distribution of Knowledge by Jeannie Oakes
III. Class, Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality
A. Class
Reading 19: Persisting Barriers: Changes in Educational Opportunities in Thirteen Countries by Hans-Peter Blossfeld and Yossi Shavit
Reading 20: The Widening Income Achievement Gap by Sean Reardon
Reading 21: More Inclusion Than Diversion: Expansion, Differentiation, and Market Structure in Higher Education by Richard Arum, Adam Gamoran and Yossi Shavit
Reading 22: Learning to Labor by Paul Willis
Reading 23: Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families by Annette Lareau
Reading 24: Exceptions to the Rule: Upwardly Mobile White and Mexican American High School Girls by Julie Bettie
B. Race and Ethnicity
Reading 25: Black Students' School Success: Coping With the "Burden of 'Acting White'" by Signithia Fordham and John U. Ogbu
Reading 26: It's Not "a Black Thing": Understanding the Burden of Acting White and Other Dilemmas of High Achievement by Karolyn Tyson, Domini R. Castellino, and William Darity, Jr.
Reading 27: Straddling Boundaries: Identity, Culture, and School by Prudence L. Carter
Reading 28: The Young and the Digital or Digital Divide: Navigating the Digital Edge by Craig Watkins
Reading 29: Race in the Schoolyard: Negotiating the Color Line in Classrooms and Communities by Amanda Lewis
Reading 30: Shades of White: White Kids and Racial Identity in High Schools by Pamela Perry
Reading 31: The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and Its Variants by Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou
C. Gender and Sexuality
Reading 32: Boys and Girls Together...But Mostly Apart by Barrie Thorne
Reading 33: Teaching and "Women's Work": A Comparative and Historical Analysis by Michael Apple
Reading 34: Rewriting Race and Gender High School Lessons: Second-Generation Dominicans in New York City by Nancy Lopez
Reading 35: Gender, Race, and Justifications for Group Exclusion: Urban Black Students Bussed to Affluent Suburban Schools" by Ispa-Landa
Reading 36: Notes on a Sociology of Bullying: Young Men's Homophobia as Gender Socialization by C. J. Pascoe
Reading 37: Bullying and Masculinity by Kimmel and Mahler
IV. Student Behavior and Adolescent Subcultures
Reading 38: The Adolescent Culture by James Coleman
Reading 39: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Findings from the Digital Youth Project by Mimi Ito
Reading 40: Resistance as a Social Drama: A Study of Change-Oriented Encounters by Daniel A. McFarland
Reading 41: The (Mis)Education of Karen and Monica by Armstrong and Hamilton
Reading 42: College Life Through the Eyes of Students by Mary Grigsby
V. The Organizational Environment
A. The Cultural and Institutional Environment
Reading 43: Do Employers Really Need More Educated Youth? by James E. Rosenbaum and Amy Binder
Reading 44: The Effects of Education as an Institution by John W. Meyer
Reading 45: Community Colleges and the American Social Order by Stephen Brint and Jerome Karabel
Reading 46: Judging School Discipline: A Crisis of Moral Authority by Richard Arum
Reading 47: Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites by Mitchell Stevens
Reading 48: Learning to Be Illegal: Undocumented Youth and Shifting Legal Contexts by Alberto Gonzales
B. Education Policy and School Reform
Reading 49: English-Only Triumphs, But the Costs Are High by Alejandro Portes
Reading 50: School Choice or School's choice? by Jennifer Jennings
Reading 51: Becoming Right by Amy Binder
Reading 52: The State of Undergraduate Learning by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa
Reading 53: Education Research That Matters: Influence, Scientific Rigor, and Policy Making by Pamela Barnhouse Walters and Annette Lareau
A. Status Attainment and Social Mobility
Reading 1: The "Rationalization" of Education and Training by Max Weber
Reading 2: Social and Cultural Mobility by Pitirim Sorokin
Reading 3: Sponsored and Contest Mobility and the School System by Ralph H. Turner
Reading 4: Status Attainment Processes by Archibald O. Haller and Alejandro Portes
B. Human Capital, Cultural Capital, and Social Capital
Reading 5: Human Capital by Gary S. Becker
Reading 6: Cultural Capital: Allusions, Gaps, and Glissandos in Recent Theoretical Developments by Michele Lamont and Annette Lareau
Reading 7: Schools, Families, and Communities by James Coleman and Thomas Hoffer
C. Changing Theories of Education Systems
Reading 8: The First Element of Morality: The Spirit of Discipline by Emile Durkheim
Reading 9: The School and the Community by Willard Waller
Reading 10: Functional and Conflict Theories of Educational Stratification by Randall Collins
Reading 11: The Long Shadow of Work by Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis and Meyers
II. Stratification Within and Between Schools
A. Resource Inequality and Racial Segregation
Reading 12: Privilege by Shamus Khan
Reading 13: Equality of Educational Opportunity: The Coleman Report by James Coleman, Ernest Campbell, Carol Hobson, James McPartland, Alexander Mood, Frederic Weinfeld, and Robert York
Reading 14: The Effects of High Schools on Their Students by Christopher S. Jencks and Marsha D. Brown
Reading 15: E Pluribus...Separation by Gary Orfield, John Kucsera and Genevieve Siegel-Hawley
Reading 16: The Nature of Schooling by Doris R. Entwisle, Karl L. Alexander, and Linda Olson
Reading 17:Desegregation Without Integration: Tracking, Black Students, and Acting White After Brown by Karolyn Tyson
Reading 18: The Distribution of Knowledge by Jeannie Oakes
III. Class, Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality
A. Class
Reading 19: Persisting Barriers: Changes in Educational Opportunities in Thirteen Countries by Hans-Peter Blossfeld and Yossi Shavit
Reading 20: The Widening Income Achievement Gap by Sean Reardon
Reading 21: More Inclusion Than Diversion: Expansion, Differentiation, and Market Structure in Higher Education by Richard Arum, Adam Gamoran and Yossi Shavit
Reading 22: Learning to Labor by Paul Willis
Reading 23: Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families by Annette Lareau
Reading 24: Exceptions to the Rule: Upwardly Mobile White and Mexican American High School Girls by Julie Bettie
B. Race and Ethnicity
Reading 25: Black Students' School Success: Coping With the "Burden of 'Acting White'" by Signithia Fordham and John U. Ogbu
Reading 26: It's Not "a Black Thing": Understanding the Burden of Acting White and Other Dilemmas of High Achievement by Karolyn Tyson, Domini R. Castellino, and William Darity, Jr.
Reading 27: Straddling Boundaries: Identity, Culture, and School by Prudence L. Carter
Reading 28: The Young and the Digital or Digital Divide: Navigating the Digital Edge by Craig Watkins
Reading 29: Race in the Schoolyard: Negotiating the Color Line in Classrooms and Communities by Amanda Lewis
Reading 30: Shades of White: White Kids and Racial Identity in High Schools by Pamela Perry
Reading 31: The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and Its Variants by Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou
C. Gender and Sexuality
Reading 32: Boys and Girls Together...But Mostly Apart by Barrie Thorne
Reading 33: Teaching and "Women's Work": A Comparative and Historical Analysis by Michael Apple
Reading 34: Rewriting Race and Gender High School Lessons: Second-Generation Dominicans in New York City by Nancy Lopez
Reading 35: Gender, Race, and Justifications for Group Exclusion: Urban Black Students Bussed to Affluent Suburban Schools" by Ispa-Landa
Reading 36: Notes on a Sociology of Bullying: Young Men's Homophobia as Gender Socialization by C. J. Pascoe
Reading 37: Bullying and Masculinity by Kimmel and Mahler
IV. Student Behavior and Adolescent Subcultures
Reading 38: The Adolescent Culture by James Coleman
Reading 39: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Findings from the Digital Youth Project by Mimi Ito
Reading 40: Resistance as a Social Drama: A Study of Change-Oriented Encounters by Daniel A. McFarland
Reading 41: The (Mis)Education of Karen and Monica by Armstrong and Hamilton
Reading 42: College Life Through the Eyes of Students by Mary Grigsby
V. The Organizational Environment
A. The Cultural and Institutional Environment
Reading 43: Do Employers Really Need More Educated Youth? by James E. Rosenbaum and Amy Binder
Reading 44: The Effects of Education as an Institution by John W. Meyer
Reading 45: Community Colleges and the American Social Order by Stephen Brint and Jerome Karabel
Reading 46: Judging School Discipline: A Crisis of Moral Authority by Richard Arum
Reading 47: Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites by Mitchell Stevens
Reading 48: Learning to Be Illegal: Undocumented Youth and Shifting Legal Contexts by Alberto Gonzales
B. Education Policy and School Reform
Reading 49: English-Only Triumphs, But the Costs Are High by Alejandro Portes
Reading 50: School Choice or School's choice? by Jennifer Jennings
Reading 51: Becoming Right by Amy Binder
Reading 52: The State of Undergraduate Learning by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa
Reading 53: Education Research That Matters: Influence, Scientific Rigor, and Policy Making by Pamela Barnhouse Walters and Annette Lareau