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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-
Contributor:
Soltis, Jonas F.
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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