Education and society : an introduction to key issues in the sociology of education / edited by Thurston Domina, Benjamin G. Gibbs, Lisa Nunn, and Andrew Penner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Domina, Thurston, 1975- Editor.

Gibbs, Benjamin Guild, 1977- Editor.

Nunn, Lisa M., 1975- Editor.

Penner, Andrew M., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 314 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Drawing on current scholarship, Education and Society takes students on a journey through the many roles that education plays in contemporary societies. Addressing students' own experience of education before expanding to larger sociological conversations, Education and Society helps readers understand and engage with such topics as peer groups, gender and identity, social class, the racialization of achievement, the treatment of immigrant children, special education, school choice, accountability, discipline, global perspectives, and schooling as a social institution. The book prompts students to evaluate how schools organize our society and how society organizes our schools. Moving from students to schooling to social forces, Education and Society provides a lively and engaging introduction to theory and research and will serve as a cornerstone for courses such as sociology of education, foundations of education, critical issues in education, and school and society.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Editors' Introduction

1. The Growth of Schooling in Global Perspective

2. A Contextual Understanding of Schools' Role in the Stratification System: Are Schools a Compensatory, Neutral, or Exacerbatory Institution?

3. Gender Inequality in Education: Outcomes and Experiences

4. Hidden in Plain Sight: Rethinking Race in Education

5. Immigrant Children and Children of Immigrants in American Schools: Shifting Demographics

EDITORS' NOTE

6. Social Class and Student-Teacher Interactions

7. First-Generation College Students

8. Peer Sorting, Peer Influence, and Student Outcomes

Case Study 2. The "Asian F" and the Racialization of Achievement

9. Creating the Canon: The Meaning and Effects of Textbooks and Curricula

10. Sorting Students for Learning: Eight Questions about Secondary-School Tracking

11. Special Education and Social Inequality

12. A Sociology of School Discipline

13. School Segregation by Race/Ethnicity and Economic Status

14. Sociological Perspectives on Leading and Teaching for School Change

15. School Choice: Policy and Perspectives

16. Higher Education and the Labor Market

Case Study 4. Importing School Forms across Professional Fields: An Understudied Phenomenon in the Sociology of Education

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 21, 2024)

Other Format:

Print version: Education and society

ISBN:

9780520968301 (epub)

9780520968301

0520968301

OCLC:

1100427928