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Schools and societies / Steven Brint.
LIBRA LC191.4 .B75 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brint, Steven G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Educational sociology--United States.
- Educational sociology.
- Schools.
- United States.
- Schools--United States--Sociological aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 340 pages ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- Schools and Societies provides a synthesis of key issues in the sociology of education, focusing on American schools while offering a global, comparative context. Already a standard text in its first edition, this fully revised and updated second edition offers a broader sweep and stronger theoretical foundation and takes into consideration key developments in education policy and scholarship since the late 1990s.
- The book is distinguished from others in the field by its breadth of coverage, compelling institutional history, and lively prose style. It opens with a chapter on schooling as a social institution. Subsequent chapters examine and compare schooling in industrialized and developing countries, and discuss the major purposes of schooling: transmitting culture, socializing young people, and sorting youth for class and occupations. The concluding chapter looks at school reform efforts and the future possibilities of schooling.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Schools as Social Institutions 1
- Chapter 2 Schooling in the Industrialized World 31
- Chapter 3 Schooling in the Developing World 68
- Chapter 4 Schools and Cultural Transmission 97
- Chapter 5 Schools and Socialization 132
- Chapter 6 Schools and Social Selection: Opportunity 162
- Chapter 7 Schools and Social Selection: Inequality 189
- Chapter 8 Teaching and Learning in Comparative Perspective 222
- Chapter 9 School Reform and the Possibilities of Schooling 253.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references ([293]-326) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804755051
- 9780804755054
- 0804750734
- 9780804750738
- OCLC:
- 63692664
- Online:
- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
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