Tracking: from theory to practice / Maureen T. Hallinan -- On education and society / Emile Durkheim -- Functional and conflict theories of educational stratification / Randall Collins -- Broken promises: school reform in retrospect / Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis -- On understanding the processes of schooling: the contributions of labeling theory / Ray C. Rist -- The forms of capital / Pierre Bourdieu -- Social capital in the creation of human capital / James S. Coleman -- Class and pedagogies: visible and invisible / Basil Bernstein -- The effects of education as an institution / John W. Meyer -- The organizational context of teaching and learning: changing theoretical perspectives / Adam Gamoran, Walter G. Secada, and Cora B. Marrett -- Is there really a teacher shortage? / Richard Ingersoll -- Tracking: from theory to practice / Maureen T. Hallinan -- Seeking equity in the education of California's English learners / Russell W. Rumberger and Patricia Gandara -- College-for-all: do students understand what college demands? / James E. Rosenbaum -- New evidence on college remediation / Paul Attewell, David Lavin, Thurston Domina, and Tania Levey -- Whose markets, whose knowledge? / Michael W. Apple -- Invisible inequality: social class and childrearing in black families and white families / Annette Lareau -- "Black" cultural capital, status positioning, and schooling conflicts for low-income African American youth / Prudence L. Carter -- Behind the model-minority stereotype: voices of high- and low-achieving Asian American students / Stacey J. Lee -- Seeking equity in the education of California's English learners / Russell W. Rumberger and Patricia Gandara -- Effects of inequality and poverty vs. teachers and schooling on America's youth / David C. Berliner. Sociological understandings of contemporary gender transformations in schooling in the UK / Madeleine Arnot -- Eliminating ableism in education / Thomas Hehir -- 60 years after Brown: trends and consequences of school segregation / Sean F. Reardon and Ann Owens -- The radical restructuring of the State and the dissolution of the American economy / Michael Fabricant and Michelle Fine -- Promise and peril: charter schools, urban school reform, and the Obama administration / Charles Payne and Tim Knowles -- Effects of inequality and poverty vs. teachers and schooling on America's youth / David C. Berliner.
Summary:
Examines the most pressing topics in sociology and education while exposing students to examples of sociological research in schools.
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