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The sociology of education (7th ed ) (7th Ed.)
A Systematic Analysis (International Student Edition)
Language: EnglishSubject for The sociology of education (7th ed ):
Publication date: 06-2020
· Paperback
Publication date: 06-2011
432 p. · 17.8x23.2 cm · Paperback
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Comprehensive, contemporary, and cross-cultural in perspective, this text provides a sociological approach to education. The authors examine several theoretical approaches and their practical application, to current educational issues, to the structure and processes that make education systems work.
Ballantine/Hammack
The Sociology of Education
Seventh Edition
Chapter1
Sociology of Education: A Unique Perspective for Understanding Schools
Sociology and Education
U.S. Schools in the Early Twenty-First Century: Applying Sociological Findings
Theoretical Approaches in the Sociology of Education
The Open Systems Approach
Research Methods in Sociology of Education
Organization of the Book
Chapter 2
Conflicting Functions and Processes in Education: What Makes the System Work?
Conflicting Functions of Education
The Importance of Processes in Educational Systems
The Function of Socialization: What We Learn and How We Learn It
The Function of Cultural Transmission and Process of Passing On Culture
The Function of Social Control and Personal Development
The Function of Selection and Allocation: The Sorting Process
The Function of Change and Innovation: Looking to the Future
Chapter 3
Education and the Process of Stratification
The Crisis in Schooling
The Process of Stratification: Is Inequality Inevitable?
Stratification and Equality of Educational Opportunity
Chapter 4
Gender, Race, and Class: Attempts to Achieve Equality of Educational Opportunity
Gender and Equality of Educational Opportunity
Class, Race, and Attempts to Rectify Inequalities in Educational Opportunity
Integration Attempts
Educational Experience of Selected Minorities in the United States
Improving Schools for Minority Students
Chapter 5
The School as an Organization
The Social System of the School
Goals of the School System
The School as an Organization
Centralized versus Decentralized Decision Making: The Fight over Control of Schools
Chapter 6
Formal School Statuses and Roles: 'The Way It Spozed to Be'
The Meaning of Roles
Professionals in the Educational System
Roles in Schools
Chapter 7
Students: The Core of the School
Student Characteristics
School Failures and Dropouts
Students and the Informal System
Students and Their Environments
Chapter 8
The Informal System and the 'Hidden Curriculum': What Really Happens in School?
The Open Systems Approach and the Informal...