Schools and Society: A Sociological Approach to Education, Sixth Edition

The authors are proud sponsors of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop. This comprehensive anthology features classical readings on the sociology of education, as well as current, original essays by notable contemporary scholars. Assigned as a main text or a supplement, this fully updated Sixth Edition uses the open systems approach to provide readers with a framework for understanding and analyzing the book's range of topics. Jeanne H. Ballantine, Joan Z. Spade, and new co-editor Jenny M. Stuber, all experienced researchers and instructors in this subject, have chosen articles that are highly readable, and that represent the field's major theoretical perspectives, methods, and issues. The Sixth Edition includes twenty new selections and five revisions of original readings and features new perspectives on some of the most contested issues in the field today, such as school funding, gender issues in schools, parent and neighborhood influences on learning, growing inequality in schools, and charter schools. Preface 12 About the Editors 16 Introduction 18 Chapter 1. What Is Sociology of Education? Theoretical Perspectives 30 Reading 1. Sociology of Education: A Unique Perspective for Understanding Schools 37 Reading 2. Getting Started: Understanding Education Through Sociological Theory 48 Reading 3. Moral Education 74 Reading 4. Conflict Theory of Educational Stratification 80 Reading 5. Social Reproduction 93 Reading 6. On Understanding the Process of Schooling: The Contributions of Labeling Theory 104 Chapter 2. Studying Schools: Research Methods in Education 121 Reading 7. Chilly Classrooms for Female Undergraduate Students: A Question of Method? 127 Reading 8. Small Class Size and Its Effects 147 Reading 9. How to Avoid Statistical Traps 164 Chapter 3. Schooling in a Social Context: Educational Environments 175 Reading 10. The Structure of Educational Organizations 180 Reading 11. A Broader and Bolder Approach Uses Education to Break the Cycle of Poverty 189 Reading 12. Good Schools, Rich Schools; Bad Schools, Poor Schools: Why America’s Public Schools Are So Unequal 199 Reading 13. Coached for the Classroom: Parents’ Cultural Transmission and Children’s Reproduction of Educational Inequalities 204 Chapter 4. Schools as Organizations: Formal and Informal Education 225 Reading 14. How Schools Work 232 Reading 15. Learning the Student Role: Kindergarten as Academic Boot Camp 240 Reading 16. Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Preschools 247 Reading 17. “Why Can’t We Learn About This?”: Sexual Minority Students Navigate the Official and Hidden Curricular Spaces of High School 260 Reading 18. Academic Learning + Socioemotional Learning = National Priority 275 Chapter 5. Roles and Responsibilities: Administrators, Teachers, and Students 284 Reading 19. School Boards: Why American Education Needs Them 290 Reading 20. School Principal: Complications and Complexities 298 Reading 21. The Status of Teaching as a Profession 312 Reading 22. Perils and Promises: Middle-Class Parental Involvement in Urban Schools 330 Reading 23. Make Students Part of the Solution, Not the Problem 348 Chapter 6. What We Teach in Schools: Knowledge for What and for Whom? 358 Reading 24. Monuments Between Covers: The Politics of Textbooks 363 Reading 25. The Changing Face of War in Textbooks: Depictions of World War II and Vietnam, 1970–2009 376 Reading 26. Facts or Critical Thinking Skills? What NAEP Results Say 393 Chapter 7. Who Gets Ahead? Race, Class, and Gender in Education 403 Reading 27. Growing Income Inequality Threatens American Education 410 Reading 28. The Rules of the Game and the Uncertain Transmission of Advantage: Middle-Class Parents’ Search for an Urban Kindergarten 422 Reading 29. The Geography of Inequality: Why Separate Means Unequal in American Public Schools 443 Reading 30. Explaining Racial Variations in Education 456 Reading 31. “Rednecks,” “Rutters,” and ’Rithmetic: Social Class, Masculinity, and Schooling in a Rural Context 476 Reading 32. Gender and Education 490 Chapter 8. Education and Opportunity: Attempts at Equality and Equity in Education 519 Reading 33. Lessons Forgotten 523 Reading 34. Only Here for a Day: Social Integration of Minority Students at a Majority White High School 531 Reading 35. The Challenge of Diverse Public Schools 555 Reading 36. Charter Schools and the Risk of Increased Segregation 564 Reading 37. High-Stakes Testing Hasn’t Brought Education Gains 578 Reading 38. Organizing for Success: From Inequality to Quality 580 Chapter 9. Higher Education 596 Reading 39. The Unintended Decentering of Teaching and Learning 602 Reading 40. Beyond the One-Size-Fits-All College Degree 610 Reading 41. The Not-So-Pink Ivory Tower 617 Reading 42. At the Activities Fair: How Class and Culture Matter for Becoming Involved in College 625 Reading 43. Friends With Academic Benefits 638 Chapter 10. Globalization and Education: Comparing Global Systems 651 Reading 44. A Global Compact on Learning: Taking Action on Education in Developing Countries 658 Reading 45. Inexcusable Absence: Who Are the Out-of-School Girls—and What Can Be Done to Get Them in School? 664 Reading 46. Globalization and the Growth of International Educational Testing and Assessment 681 Reading 47. Too Many Children Left Behind: The U.S. Achievement Gap in Comparative Perspective 692 Chapter 11. Can Schools Change? Educational Reform and Change 707 Reading 48. Deschooling Society 711 Reading 49. How Schools Really Matter 720 Reading 50. Can Schooling Contribute to a More Just Society? 730 Reading 51. The Paradox of Success at a No-Excuses School 741 Concluding Remarks 754 Appendix: Web Resources for Continued Exploration of the Topics in This Book 755 NEW TO THIS EDITION: New readings in the Sixth Edition: Moral Education by Emile Durkheim Social Reproduction by David Swartz Good Schools, Rich Schools; Bad Schools, Poor Schools: why America’s Public Schools are so Unequal by Alana Semuels Coached for the Classroom: Parents’ Cultural Transmission and Children’s Reproduction of Educational Inequalities by Jessica McCrory Calarco Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Preschools by Karin A. Martin Why Can’t We Learn About This? Sexual Minority Students Navigate the Official and Hidden Curricular Spaces of High School by Ingrid E. Castro and Mark Conor Sujak Academic Learning and Social-Emotional Learning=National Priority by Roger P. Weissberg and Jason Cascarino School Boards: Why American Education Needs Them by Michael A. Resnick and Anne L. Bryant Perils and Promises: Middle-class Parental Involvement in Urban Schools by Maia Bloomfield Cucchiara and Erin McNamara Horvat Make Students Part of the Solution by Trevor Gardner The Changing Face of War in Textbooks: Depictions of World War II and Vietnam, 1970-2009 by Richard Lachmann and Lacy Mitchell Growing Income Inequality Threatens American Education by Greg J. Duncan and Richard J. Murnane The Rules of the Game and the Uncertain Transmission of Advantage: Middle-class Parents’ Search for an Urban Kindergarten by Annette Lareau, Shani Adia Evans, and April Yee The Challenge of Diverse Public Schools by Toby L. Parcel, Joshua A. Hedrix, and Andrew J. Taylor Charter Schools and the Risk of Increased Segregation by Iris C. Roterg High Stakes Testing Hasn’t Brought Education Gains by Judith Browne Dianis, John H. Jackson, and Pedro Noguera Beyond the One-Size-Fits-All College Degree by James Rosenbaum, Kenna Cepa, and Janet Rosenbaum The Not-So-Pink Ivory Tower by Ann Mullen At the Activities Fair: How Class and Culture Matter for Becoming Involved in College by Jenny Stuber Friends with Academic Benefits by Janice McCabe A Global Compact on Learning: Taking Action on Education in Developing Countries by Brookings Institution Too Many Children Left Behind: The U.S. Achievement Gap in Comparative Perspective by Bruce Bradbury, et al. The Paradox of Success at a No-Excuses School by Joanne W. Golann KEY FEATURES: Classic and contemporary readings are drawn from a wide range of sources, including books, journals, scientific studies and reports, and commentaries. Introductions to each chapter provide a holistic view of the field and demonstrate the interrelationships between the various issues in education. An introduction and questions precede each article to guide students and to demonstrate the article’s connection to other readings. Updated current event readings and statistics throughout. Suggested projects for continued exploration are included in each chapter This comprehensive anthology features classical readings on the Sociology of Education, as well as current, original essays by notable contemporary scholars. Assigned as a main text or a supplement, this fully updated "Sixth Edition" uses the open systems approach to provide readers with a framework for understanding and analyzing the book s range of topics. Jeanne H. Ballantine, Joan Z. Spade, and Jenny M. Stuber have chosen articles that are highly readable, and that represent the field s major theoretical perspectives, methods, and issues. The Sixth Edition includes twenty new selections and five revisions of original readings and features new perspectives on some of the most contested issues in the field today, such as school funding, gender issues in schools, parent and neighborhood influences on learning, growing inequality in schools, and charter schools. -- From product description