Schools and society: a sociological approach to education / edited by Jeanne H. Ballantine, Joan Z. Spade, Jenny M . Stuber

Includes bibliographical references.

Chapter 1: What Is Sociology of Education? Theoretical Perspectives Reading 1. Sociology of Education: A Unique Perspective for Understanding Schools - Jeanne H. Ballantine and Flloyd M. Hammack Reading 2. Getting Started: Understanding Education Through Sociological Theory - Jeanne H. Ballantine and Joan Reading 3. Moral Education - Emily Durkheim Reading 4. Conflict Theory of Educational Stratification - Randall Collins Reading 5. Social Reproduction - David Swartz Reading 6. On Understanding the Process of Schooling: The Contributions of Labeling Theory - Ray C. RistChapter 2: Studying Schools: Research Methods in Education Reading 7. Chilly Classrooms for Female Undergraduate Students: A Question of Method? - Elizabeth J. Allan and Mary Madden Reading 8. Small Class Size and Its Effects - Bruce J. Biddle and David C. Berliner Reading 9. How to Avoid Statistical Traps - Gerald W. BraceyChapter 3: Schooling in a Social Context: Educational Environments Reading 10. The Structure of Educational Organizations - John. W. Meyer and Brian Rowan Reading 11. A Broader and Bolder Approach Uses Education to Break the Cycle of Poverty - Pedro A. Noguera Reading 12. Good Schools, Rich Schools; Bad Schools, Poor Schools: Why America's Public Schools are so Unequal - Alana Semuels Reading 13. Coached for the Classroom: Parents' Cultural Transmission and Children's Reproduction of Educational Inequalities - Jessica McCrory CalarcoChapter 4: Schools as Organizations: Formal and Informal Education Reading 14. How Schools Work - Rebecca Barra and Robert Dreeben Reading 15. Learning the Student Role: Kindergarten as Academic Boot Camp - Harry L. Gracey Reading 16. Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Preschools - Karin A. Martin Reading 17. "Why Can't We Learn About This?": Sexual Minority Students Navigate the Official and Hidden Curricular Spaces of High School - Ingrid E. Castro and Mark Conor Sujak Reading 18. Academic Learning + Socioemotional Learning=National Priority - Roger P. Weissberg and Jason CascarinoChapter 5: Roles and Responsibilities: Administrators, Teachers, and Students Reading 19. School Boards: Why American Education Needs Them - Anne L. Bryant Reading 20. School Principal: Complications and Complexities - Dan C. Lortie Reading 21. The Status of Teaching as a Profession - Richard M. Ingersoll and Gregory Collins Reading 22. Perils and Promises: Middle-Class Parental Involvement in Urban Schools - Maria Bloomfield Cucchiara and Erin McNamara Horvat Reading 23. Make Students Part of the Solution, Not the Problem - Trevor GardnerChapter 6: What We Teach in Schools: Knowledge for What and for Whom? Reading 24. Monuments Between Covers: The Politics of Textbooks - David Tyack Reading 25. The Changing Face of War in Textbooks: Depictions of World War II and Vietnam, 1970-2009 - Richard Lachmann and Lacy Mitchell Reading 26. Facts or Critical Thinking Skills? What NAEP Results Say - Harold WenglinskyChapter 7: Who Gets Ahead? Race, Class, and Gender in Education Reading 27. Growing Income Inequality Threatens American Education - Greg J. Duncan and Richard J. Murnane Reading 28. The Rules of the Game and the Uncertain Transmission of Advantage: Middle-class Parents' Search for an Urban Kindergarten - Annetee Lareau, Shani Adia Evans, and April Yee Reading 29. The Geography of Inequality: Why Separate Means Unequal in American Public Schools - John R. Logan, Elisabeta Mica, and Sinem Adar Reading 30. Explaining Racial Variations in Education - Caroline Hodges Persell Reading 31. "Rednecks," "Rutters," and "Rithmetic": Social Class, Masculinity, and Schooling in a Rural Context - Edward W. Morris Reading 32. Gender and Education - Roslyn Arlin MichelsonChapter 8: Education and Opportunity: Attempts at Equality and Equity in Education Reading 33. Lessons Forgotten - Gary Orfield Reading 34. Only Here for a Day: Social Integration of Minority Students at a Majority White High School - Megan M. Holland Reading 35. The Challenge of Diverse Public Schools - Toby L. Parcel, Joshua A. Hedrix, and Andrew J. Taylor Reading 36. Charter Schools and the Risk of Increased Segregation - Iris C. Roterg Reading 37. High Stakes Testing Hasn't Brought Education Gains - Judith Browne Dianis, John H. Jackson, and Pedro Noguera Reading 38. Organizing for Success: From Inequality to Quality - Linda Darling-HammondChapter 9: Higher Education Reading 39. The Unintended Decentering of Teaching and Learning - Gaye Tuchman Reading 40. Beyond the One-Size-Fits All College Degree - James Rosenbaum, Kenna Cepa, and Janet Rosenbaum Reading 41. The Not-So-Pink Ivory Tower - Ann Mullen Reading 42. At the Activities Fair: How Class and Culture Matter for Becoming Involved in College - Jenny Stuber Reading 43. Friends with Academic Benefits - Janice McCabeChapter 10: Globalization and Education: Comparing Global Systems Reading 44. A Global Compact on Learning: Taking Action on Education in Developing Countries - Brookings Institution Reading 45. Inexcusable Absence: Who Are the Out-of-School Girls - and What Can Be Done to Get Them in School? - Maureen A. Lewis and Marlaine E. Lockheed Reading 46. Globalization and the Growth of International Educational Testing and Assessment - David H. Kamens and Connie L. McNeely Reading 47. Too Many Children Left Behind: The U.S. Achievement Gap in Comparative Perspective - Bruce Bradbury, Miles Corak, Jane Waldfogel, and Elizabeth WashbrookChapter 11: Can Schools Change? Educational Reform and Change Reading 48. Deschooling Society - Ivan Illich Reading 49. How Schools Really Matter - Douglass B. Downey and Benjamin G. Gibbs Reading 50. Can Schooling Contribute to a More Just Society? - Michael W. Apple Reading 51. The Paradox of Success at a No-Excuses School - Joanne W. Golann