Sociology of Education

• VOLUME ONE: Theories and Methodologies in UseOn Education and Society - Émile DurkheimThe Sociology of Education - Jean Floud and A.H. HalseyFunctional and Conflict Theories of Educational Stratification - Randall CollinsMichel Foucault on Education: A Preliminary Theoretical Overview - Roger DeaconThe Forms of Capital - Pierre BourdieuUnderstanding Structure and Agency - Sharon Gewirtz and Alan CribbThe Effects of Education as an Institution - John W. MeyerWeber on Education and Its Administration: Prospects for Leadership in a Rationalized World - Eugenie Samier`Working-Class Families and the New Secondary Education - R.W. ConnellThe Geography of Inequality: Why Separate Means Unequal in American Public Schools - John R. Logan, Elisabeta Minca and Sinem AdarConstructing the Sociology of Education as a Unique Discipline: The Cases of Mainland China and Taiwan - Chang, J. and Renjie, Z.Intersectionality, Critical Race Theory, and the Primacy of Racism: Race, Class, Gender, and Disability in Education? - David GillbornDiminishing the Divisions among Us: Reading and Writing across Difference in Theory and Method in the Sociology of Education - Lois Weis, Heather Jenkins and Amy StichRenewing Sociology of Education? Knowledge Spaces, Situated Enactments, and Sociological Practice in a World on the Move - Terri SeddonTeachers’ Work: Institutional Isomorphism and Cultural Variation in the US, Germany and Japan - Gerald K. Le Tendre, David P. Baker, Motoko Akiba, Brian Goesling and Alex WisemanVOLUME TWO: Politics and PolicyPromoting Educational Reforms in Weak States: The Case of Radical Policy Discontinuity in Peru - Maria BalarinNew Philanthropy, New Networks and New Governance in Education - Stephen J. BallPolicy Spaces, Mobile Discourses, and the Definition of Educated Identities - Jason BeechPolitics, Markets and the Organization of Schools - John E. Chubb and Terry M. MoeSpecifying Globalization Effects on National Policy: A Focus on the Mechanisms - Roger DaleWhat Is Enlightenment? - Foucault, M.Consumption, Personalisation and Education Policy - David HartleyThe Knowledge Society and Global Dynamics in Education Politics - Anja P. JacobiEducational Evaluation: A Basis for, or a Legitimation of, Educational Policy - Ulf P. LundgrenPolicy Inroads Undermining Women in Education - Catherine Marshall and Michelle YoungReimagining Attraction and ‘Borrowing’ in Education: Introducing a Political Production Model - Jeremy RappleyeDecolonizing the Evidence-based Education and Policy Movement: Revealing the Colonial Vestiges in Educational Policy, Research, and Neoliberal Reform - Riyad Ahmed ShahjahanTraveling Policies: Hijacked in Central Asia - Iveta SilovaThe Capitalist State and Public Policy Formation ­– Framework for a Political Sociology of Educational Policy Making - Carlos Alberto TorresThe Fabrications and Travels of a Knowledge-Policy Instrument - Luis Miguel CarvalhoSchooling in Capitalist America Revisited - Samuel Bowles and Herbert GintisVOLUMETHREE: Equalities & IdentitiesCherokee School Society and the Intercultural Classroom - Robert Dumont, Jr. and Murray L. WaxGender Inequality in Education: Accounting for Women′s Subordination - Nelly P. StromquistNew Modes of Reproducing Social Inequality in Education: The Changing Role of Parents, Teachers, Schools and Educational Policies - Agnès van ZantenTwo Paths to Inequality in Educational Outcomes: Family Background and Educational Selection in the United States and Norway - Liza ReiselSocial Class and Educational Attainment: A Comparative Study of England, Wales, and Scotland - Lindsay Paterson and Cristina IannelliPrivatization Reform and Inequality of Educational Opportunity: The Case of Chile - Florencia TorcheExcluding the Included: A Reconsideration of Inclusive Education - Roger Slee and Julie AllanRace, Nation and Education: An Overview of British Attempts to ‘Manage Diversity’ Since the 1950s - Farzana ShainInternationalisation of Higher Education in South Korea: Reality, Rhetoric, and Disparity in Academic Culture and Identities - Terri KimFields and Institutional Strategy: Bourdieu on the Relationship between Higher Education, Inequality and Society - Rajani NaidooStudent Self-Formation in International Education - Simon MarginsonThe Aftermath of Race: The Politics and Perils of Theorizing Racial Identities in Education in the Age of Information - Cameron McCarthyWhy Ethnic Minority Children Are More Likely to Drop Out of School: A Cultural Capital Perspective–Evidence from Ethnic Minority Rural Communities in the Northwest - Sun Bacai and Xu JingjianPoverty, Education, Gender and the Millennium Development Goals: Reflections on Boundaries and Intersectionality - Elaine UnterhalterAtmospheres of Progress in a Data-based School - Matt FinnVOLUMEFOUR: Pedagogies & InstitutionsEducation and College Culture - Marten ShipmanThe ‘New’ Sociology of Education and the Study of Learning Environments: Prospects and Problems - Lawrence J. SahaThe Organizational Structure of the School - William B. TylerToward a Theory of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy - Gloria Ladson-BillingsThe New Work Order and the Australian Schools - Shirley Grundy and Stewart BonserLiteracy and Pedagogy in Flux: Constructing the Object of Study from a Bernsteinian Perspective - Gemma MossKnowledge and the Curriculum in the Sociology of Education: Towards a Reconceptualisation - Rob Moore and Michael YoungSocial Class and Pedagogic Practice - Basil BernsteinGender Equality, Pedagogy and Citizenship: Affirmative and Transformative Approaches in the UK - Madeleine ArnotOn the Reception of Foucauldian Ideas in Pedagogical Research - Helena OstrowickaThe Assembling of Schooling: Discussing Concepts and Models for Understanding the Historical Production of Modern Schooling - Inés DusselUnderstanding Learning Cultures - Phil Hodkinson, Gert Biesta and David JamesKnowledge and Cognition: The Sociology of Knowledge Reconsidered - Gerard DelantyLocal Tradition, International Engagement: Challenges for the Asian Professoriate - Anthony WelchAnalyzing Schools as Organizations: Long-Term Permanence and Short-Term Change - Charles E. BidwellA New Professionalism? Challenges and Opportunities - Julia Evetts

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