The schooled society: an introduction to the sociology of education

INDICE: Preface; Part I: Introduction; 1: Thinking Sociologically about the Schooled Society; Introduction: What Is a 'Schooled Society'?; Thinking Sociologically about Schooling; The Art of Applying Science to Study Society; Describing Links between Schools and Society; Identifying Causes and Their Social Mechanisms; How Schools Relate to Society: Three Roles; Plan for the Remainder ofthe Book; 2: Classical Sociological Approaches to Education; Introduction: The Uses of Theory in Studying Schools; Durkheim and Socialization: The CulturalShift to Individualism; Marx: Industrial Capitalism, Class Inequality, and the Spectre of Selection; Weber: Organizing and Legitimizing Knowledge; Directions: From Classical to Contemporary Theory; 3: Contemporary Sociological Approaches to Schooling; Introduction: Changing Contexts for Schooling; Socialization; Structural Functionalism: Nurturing Modern Values; Neo-Marxism: The Capitalist Hidden Curriculum; The Focus on Ascription: Shaping Identities of Gender and Race; A Renewed Individualism? Reflexive Modernization; Selection: Inequality and Opportunity; The Functional Theory of Stratification: Selecting for Merit; Neo-Marxism: Thwarting Upward Mobility; Understanding Differential Success: The Forms of Capital; Gender, Race, and their Interactions: Ascriptive Divisions of Labour; Organizing and Legitimizing Knowledge; Human Capital Theory: Schooling for Productive Skills; Credentialism: Schooling for Status Signals; New Institutionalism: Schools and World Culture; Consequences and Directions; Part II: Selection: Inequality and Opportunity; 4: Education Revolutionized: The Growth of Modern Schooling; Introduction; Beginnings of a Schooled Soc; Enrolments and Attendance: Creating a Universal Experience; The Revolution in Expectations; Expanding Curricula; Expanding Functions; Expanding Alternatives; Exporting the School Model; 5: The Structural Transformation of Schooling: Accommodation, Competition, and Stratification; Introduction; Thinking Structurally: Established Stratification; Stratification within Post-Secondary Education; Accommodation; From Factories to Shopping Malls to Accountability; Competition: Maintaining Inequality; New Forms of Stratification; Conclusion: The Upward Movement of Educational Selection; 6: Unequal Student Attainments: Class, Gender, and Race; Introduction: The New Role of Schooling in Societal Inequality; Describing Class Inequalities: Persisting Disparities amid Rising Attainment; Gender and Attainment: Equalizing in Fractal Form; Racial and Ethnic Variations: Beyond Vertical Mosaic and Abella Images; Causes of Inequalities: Schools, Families, and Environments; Social Mechanisms of Educational Inequality; Primary Mechanisms: Sources of Ability; Primary Mechanisms: Family-Based Learning Opportunities; Primary Mechanisms: Stress; Primary Mechanisms: Contexts of Schools and Neighbourhoods; Secondary Mechanisms: Orientations to School and Cultural Mismatches; Gender: Secondary Mec

• ISBN: 978-0-19-543174-2
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Desconocida
• Páginas: 344
• Fecha Publicación: 20/05/2010
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