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School and society / Walter Feinberg, Jonas F. Soltis.
LIBRA LC191 .F4 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Feinberg, Walter, 1937-
- Series:
- Thinking about education series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Educational sociology.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 157 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- Fourth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Teachers College Press, [2004]
- Contents:
- Part I The Relation of School to Society 1
- Factory Prep 3
- An Imaginary Society 4
- Three Schools of Thought 6
- Part II Schooling As Socialization and Progress 13
- Chapter 2 The Functionalist Perspective on Schooling 15
- Functionalism 15
- Equality of Educational Opportunity 20
- Educational Reform: Three Cases 22
- Assimilation, Political Socialization, and Modernization 24
- Chapter 3 Functional Theory, Policy, and Problems 29
- Historical Impediments and Compensatory Education 30
- Intellectual and Cultural Impediments 31
- Poverty 35
- Problems with Functionalism 36
- Part III Schooling as Legitimation and Reproduction 41
- Chapter 4 Marxist Theory and Education 43
- Conflict Theory and Functionalism 43
- Marxist Theory 46
- Class Consciousness, False Consciousness, and Hegemony 49
- Marxism, Neo-Marxism, and Education 53
- A Neo-Marxist Interpretation of Schooling in Capitalist Society 56
- Chapter 5 The Hidden Curriculum Revisited 59
- A Theory of Cultural Reproduction 62
- Student Subculture and the Working Class 65
- Puzzles, Problems, and Prospects 68
- Foucault and the Post Modern Move Beyond Marxism 70
- Feminism as a Form of Conflict Theory 74
- Part IV Interpretation and the Social Function of Schooling 79
- Chapter 6 The Interpretivist Point of View 81
- An Argument for the Interpretivist Point of View 84
- The Active Quality of Mind 86
- The Role of Interpretation in Social Science 87
- Interpretive Scholarship in Education 93
- Chapter 7 Meaning and Messages; Schooling and Socialization 98
- Hermeneutics and Interpretation 102
- Interpretation and Socialization 104
- Interpretation, Socialization, and Legitimation 107
- Objections to the Interpretivist Approach 109
- What Is at Stake? 110
- Part V Cases and Disputes 113
- Student Government 117
- The Roots of School Failure 119
- The Hidden Curriculum 121
- National Reports on Education 122
- The Geography Lesson 123
- Resource Allocation 124
- College or Workforce? 126
- Individual Differences and Equal Opportunity 128
- Social Reproduction 129
- Equal but Separate 131
- Education for Work 132
- Workforce School 133
- Class Bias? 134
- Social Studies 136
- Interpretation and Ethical Relativism 136
- The New Student 137
- Mainstream or Not? 138
- Social Conditioning and Freedom 140
- Interpretation and Epistemic Relativism 141
- A Third-World School System 142
- The Curriculum 143.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-157).
- ISBN:
- 0807744964
- OCLC:
- 55044849
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