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Taylor and Francis Sociology Of Education A Critical Reader 3Rd Edn 2016 Edition by ALAN R. SADOVNIK AND RYAN W. COUGHLAN
This comprehensive and bestselling reader examines the most pressing topics in sociology and education while exposing students to examples of sociological research in schools. Drawing from classic and contemporary scholarship, noted sociologist Alan R. Sadovnik with Ryan W. Coughlan have chosen readings that examine current issues and reflect diverse theoretical approaches to studying the effects of schooling and society. The third edition provides students with nine new readings from some of the best theorists and researchers in education including Sean F. Reardon, Ann Owens, Prudence L. Carter, and Pedro A. Noguera. Through full, rather than excerpted primary source readings, students have the opportunity to read sociological research as it is written and engage in critical analyses of readings in their entirety. This edition features a greater focus on issues of equality and accessibility in schooling for minority students and those with learning disabilities, while an all-new Part IV offers a selection of articles on the shifting social and political factors which have influenced the development of education policy and reform within the last six years. Including comprehensive section introductions, questions for reflection and discussion, and suggested readings, Sociology of Education will stimulate student thinking about the important roles that schools play in contemporary society and their ability to solve fundamental social, economic, and political problems. AcknowledgmentsIntroductionSuggested ReadingsPart I. Theory and Method in the Sociology of Education1. Theory and Research in the Sociology of EducationAlan R. Sadovnik2. On Education and SocietyEmile Durkheim3. Functional and Conflict Theories of Educational StratificationRandall Collins4. Broken Promises: School Reform in RetrospectSamuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis5. On Understanding the Processes of Schooling: The Contributions of Labeling TheoryRay C. Rist6. The Forms of CapitalPierre Bourdieu7. Social Capital in the Creation of Human CapitalJames S. Coleman8. Class and Pedagogies: Visible and InvisibleBasil Bernstein9. The Effects of Education as an InstitutionJohn W. MeyerPart I Suggested ReadingsPart II. School Organizations and Processes: Elementary, Secondary, and Post-Secondary Education10. The Organizational Context of Teaching and Learning: Changing Theoretical PerspectivesAdam Gamoran, Walter G. Secada, and Cora B. Marrett11. Is There Really a Teacher Shortage?Richard Ingersoll12. Tracking: From Theory to PracticeMaureen T. HallinanMore than Misplaced Technology: A Normative Political Response to Hallinan on TrackingJeannie Oakes13. College-for-All: Do Students Understand What College Demands?James E. Rosenbaum14. New Evidence on College RemediationPaul A. Attewell, David E. Lavin, Thurston Domina, and Tania Levey15. Whose Markets, Whose Knowledge?Michael W. ApplePart II Suggested ReadingsPart III. Education, Identity, and Inequality16. Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White FamiliesAnnette Lareau17. "Black" Cultural Capital, Status Positioning, and Schooling Conflicts for Low-Income African American YouthPrudence L. Carter18. Behind the Model-Minority Stereotype: Voices of High- and Low-Achieving Asian American StudentsStacey J. Lee19. Seeking Equity in the Education of California's English LearnersRussell W. Rumberger and Patricia Gandara20. The Trouble with Black Boys: The Role and Influence of Environmental and Cultural Factors on the Academic Performance of African American MalesPedro A. Noguera21. Sociological Understandings of Contemporary Gender Transformations in Schooling in the UKMadeleine Arnot22. Eliminating Ableism in EducationThomas HehirPart III Suggested ReadingsPart IV. Educational Reform and Policy23. 60 Years After Brown: Trends and Consequences of School SegregrationSean F. Reardon and Ann Owens24. The Radical Restructuring of the State and the Dissolution of the American EconomyMichael Fabricant and Michelle Fine25. Promise and Peril: Charter School, Urban School Reform, and the Obama AdministrationCharles Payne and Tim Knowles26. Effects of Inequality and Poverty vs. Teachers and Schooling on America's YouthDavid C. BerlinerPart IV Suggested ReadingsPermissionsIndex