editors, Jeanne H. Ballantine, Wright State University, Joan Z. Spade, The College at Brockport, State University of New York, Jenny M. Stuber, University of North Florida.
Chapter 1: What is sociology of education? Theoretical perspectives. Sociology of education: a unique perspective for understanding schools / Jeanne H. Ballantine and Floyd M. Hammock -- Getting started: understanding education through sociological theory / Jeanne H. Ballantine and Joan Z. Spade -- Moral education / Emile Durkheim -- Conflict theory of educational stratification / Randall Collins -- Social reproduction / David Swartz -- On understanding the process of schooling: the contributions of labeling theory / Ray C. Rist.
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Chapter 10: Globalization and education: comparing global systems. A global compact on learning: taking action on education in developing countries / Brookings Institution -- 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 -- Globalization and the growth of international educational testing and assessment / David H. Kamens and Connie L. McNeely -- Too many children left behind: the U.S. achievement gap in comparative perspective / Bruce Bradbury, Miles Corak, Jane Waldfogel, and Elizabeth Washbrook.
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Chapter 11: Can schools change? Educational reform and change. Deschooling society / Ivan Illich -- How schools really matter / Douglas B. Downey and Benjamin G. Gibbs -- Can schooling contribute to a more just society? / Michael W. Apple -- The paradox of success at a no-excuses school / Joanne W. Golann.
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Chapter 2: Studying schools: research methods in education. Chilly classrooms for female undergraduate students: a question of method? / Elizabeth J. Allen and Mary Madden -- Small class size and its effects / Bruce J. Biddle and David C. Berliner -- How to avoid statistical traps / Gerald W. Bracey.
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Chapter 3: Schooling in a social context: educational environments. The structure of educational organizations / John W. Meyer and Brian Rowan -- A broader and bolder approach uses education to break the cycle of poverty / Pedro A. Noguera -- Good schools, rich schools; bad schools, poor schools: why America's public schools are so unequal / Alana Semuels -- Coached for the classroom: parents' cultural transmission and children's reproduction of educational inequalities / Jessica McCrary Calarco.
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Chapter 4: Schools as organizations: formal and informal education. How schools work / Rebecca Barr and Robert Dreeben -- Learning the student role: kindergarten as an academic boot camp / Harry L. Gracey -- Becoming a gendered body: practices of preschools / Karin A. Martin -- "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 -- Academic learning + socioemotional learning = national priority / Roger P. Weissberg and Jason Cascarino.
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Chapter 5: Roles and responsibilities: administrators, teachers, and students. School boards: why American education needs them / Michael A. Resnick and Anne L. Bryant -- School principal: complications and complexities / Don C. Lortie -- The status of teaching as a profession / Richard M. Ingersoll and Gregory J. Collins -- Perils and promises: middle-class parental involvement in urban schools / Maia Bloomfield Cucchiara and Erin McNamara Harvat -- Make students part of the solution, not the problem / Trevor Gardner.
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Chapter 6: What we teach in schools: knowledge for what and for whom? Monuments between covers: the politics of textbooks / David Tyack -- The changing face of war in textbooks: depictions of World War II and Vietnam, 1970-2009 / Richard Lachmann and Lacy Mitchell -- Factors or critical thinking skills? What NAEP results say / Harold Wenglinsky.
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Chapter 7: Who gets ahead? Race, class, and gender in education. Growing income inequality threatens American education / Greg J. Duncan and Richard J. Murnane -- The rules of the game and the uncertain transmission of advantage: middle-class parents' search for an urban kindergarten / Annette Lareau, Shani Adia Evans, and April Yee -- The geography of inequality: why separate means unequal in American public schools / John R. Logan, Elisabeta Minca, and Sinem Adar -- Explaining racial variations in education / Caroline Hodges Persell -- "Rednecks," "Rutters," and 'rithmetic: social class, masculinity, and schooling in a rural context / Edward W. Morris -- Gender and education / Roslyn Arlin Mickelson.
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Chapter 8: Education and opportunity: attempts at equality and equity in education. Lessons forgotten / Gary Orfield -- Only here for a day: social integration of minority students at a majority white high school / Megan M. Holland -- The challenge of diverse public schools / Toby L. Parcel, Joshua A. Hendrix, and Andrew J. Taylor -- Charter schools and the risk of increased segregation / Iris C. Rotberg -- High-stakes testing hasn't brought education gains / Judith Browne Dianis, John H. Jackson, and Pedro Noguera -- Organizing for success: from inequality to quality / Linda Darling-Hammond.
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Chapter 9: Higher education. The unintended decentering of teaching and learning / Gaye Tuchman -- Beyond the one-size-fits-all college degree / James Rosenbau, Kenna Cepa, and Janet Rosenbaum -- The not-so-pink ivory tower / Ann Mullen -- At the activities fair: how class and culture matter for becoming involved at college / Jenny Stuber -- Friends with academic benefits / Janice McCabe.
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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 books range of topics. Jeanne H. Ballantine, Joan Z. Spade, and Jenny M. Stuber have chosen articles that are highly readable, and that represent the fields 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. -- From product description.