International Handbook on the Sociology of Education

Carlos Alberto Torres is professor of social sciences and comparative education and is director of the Latin American Center at UCLA. Ari Antikainen is professor of sociology and education at the University of Joensuu.

• 1 Handbook of Sociology of Education: International PerspectivesIntroduction2 PART I SOCIAL THEORY AND METHODOLOGY3 Sociological Theory of Education in the Dialectical Perspective4 Explorations in the System-Theoretical Study of Education5 Social Capital in Education: Theoretical Issues and Empirical Knowledge in Attainment Research6 Critical Ethnography and the Sociology of Education7 Sociocultural Approaches to Cognition: Implications for the Sociology of Education8 Decisive Moments and Key Experiences: Expanding Paradigmatic boundaries in the study of school effects9 Biography, Life Course and the Sociology of Education10 Leading the Way: The Development of Quantitative Techniques in the Sociology of Education)11 PART II SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION IN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXTS: REGIONAL FOCUS12 Educational Policy and New Ways of Governance in a Transnational Period13 Constructing the Sociology of Education as a Unique Discipline: The cases of Mainland China and TaiwanJason Chang (University of Taipei, Taiwan/China) and Zhang Renjie (Guangzhou University)14 Education in Transition Society: Growing Inequality15 Sociology of Education in Latin America16 Institutionalised Legitimate Informational Capital in the Welfare State. Has Policy Failed?17 PART III CRITICAL ISSUES IN SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION18 Making Sense of Education Reform: Global and National Influences19 Civil Society as Equilibrium Governance and Choice in Education: Between Private Delivery and Central Regulation20 Women and Education in Europe21 The North and South Contrasted: Cultural Similarities and Differences in Affective Education Yaacov J. Katz, Alkistis Kontoyianni, Peter Lang, Isabel Menezes, Sean Neill, Arja Puurula, Shlomo Romi, Lisa Vasileiou, and Lennart Vriens (Bar Ilan University, 22 Citizens in the Text? International Presentations of Citizenship in School Textbooks

An ambitious, highly readable volume that works, laudably, to link various debates within the sociology of education to the larger forces of globalization that increasingly inform our world. Each chapter evidences fine scholarship. Most chapters offer significant contributions to the field, and students of the sociology of education will gain much from reading them. Indeed, the volume has much to offer, and it succeeds in raising awareness of the need to expand the scope of the sociology of education.