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The Structure of Schooling
Readings in the Sociology of Education
Fourth Edition
Edited by:
- Richard Arum - University of California, Irvine, New York University, USA
- Irenee R. Beattie - University of California, Merced, USA
- Karly Ford - Pennsylvania State University, USA, New York University, Steinhardt School of Education
April 2020 | 688 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Gain insights from the leading sociologists of education
The Structure of Schooling draws from classic and contemporary scholarship to examine current issues and diverse theoretical approaches to studying the effects of schooling on individuals and society. The Fourth Edition of this comprehensive reader covers a wide range of critical topics on schools and education, including the development and application of social and cultural capital; the effects of racial segregation and resource inequality on student outcomes; the role of gender, class, and race in structuring educational opportunity; the effects schooling has on life course outcomes; the significance of a school's institutional environment; youth and digital innovation; and the sociology of school reform movements.
The Structure of Schooling draws from classic and contemporary scholarship to examine current issues and diverse theoretical approaches to studying the effects of schooling on individuals and society. The Fourth Edition of this comprehensive reader covers a wide range of critical topics on schools and education, including the development and application of social and cultural capital; the effects of racial segregation and resource inequality on student outcomes; the role of gender, class, and race in structuring educational opportunity; the effects schooling has on life course outcomes; the significance of a school's institutional environment; youth and digital innovation; and the sociology of school reform movements.
About the Editors
Preface
Introduction
PART I. THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
Chapter 1. Human Capital
Chapter 2. The School as a Conservative Force: Scholastic and Cultural Inequalities
Chapter 3. Schools, Families, and Communities
Chapter 4. Cultural Capital: Allusions, Gaps, and Glissandos in Recent Theoretical Developments
Chapter 5. The “Rationalization” of Education and Training
Chapter 6. Social and Cultural Mobility
Chapter 7. Sponsored and Contest Mobility and the School System
Chapter 8. Status Attainment Processes
Chapter 9. The First Element of Morality: The Spirit of Discipline
Chapter 10. Functional and Conflict Theories of Educational Stratification
Chapter 11. The Effects of Education as an Institution
Chapter 12. The Adolescent Subculture and Academic Achievement
Chapter 13. Effectively Maintained Inequality: Education Transitions, Track Mobility, and Social Background Effects
Chapter 14. The Long Shadow of Work: Education, the Family, and the Reproduction of the Social Division of Labor
PART II. INTERSECTING IDENTITIES, CULTURE, AND INEQUALITIES
Chapter 15. Employing Multilevel Intersectionality in Educational Research: Latino Identities, Contexts, and College Access
Chapter 16. Gender, Education and Society: The Limits and Possibilities of Feminist Reproduction Theory
Chapter 17. Notes on a Sociology of Bullying: Young Men’s Homophobia as Gender Socialization
Chapter 18. Shades of White: White Kids and Racial Identity in High Schools
Chapter 19. Black Students’ School Success: Coping With the “Burden of ‘Acting White’”
Chapter 20. It’s Not “a Black Thing”: Understanding the Burden of Acting White and Other Dilemmas of High Achievement
Chapter 21. Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families
Chapter 22. The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Poor Students
Chapter 23. Exceptions to the Rule: Upwardly Mobile White and Mexican American High School Girls
Chapter 24. Negotiating Opportunities
Chapter 25. Privilege
Chapter 26. Straddling Boundaries: Identity, Culture, and School
Chapter 27. Coming Up Short: Basic Needs Insecurity on the College Campus
PART III. SOCIAL STRUCTURES AND SCHOOL PRACTICES
Chapter 28. Equality of Educational Opportunity: The Coleman Report
Chapter 29. Harming Our Common Future: America’s Segregated Schools 65 Years After Brown
Chapter 30. The Nature of Schooling
Chapter 31. The Widening Income Achievement Gap
Chapter 32. Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy
Chapter 33. Community Colleges and the American Social Order
Chapter 34. Student Planning and Information Problems in Different College Structures
Chapter 35. More Inclusion than Diversion: Expansion, Differentiation, and Market Structure in Higher Education
Chapter 36. Desegregation Without Integration: Tracking, Black Students, and Acting White After Brown
Chapter 37. Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work
Chapter 38. The State of Undergraduate Learning
Chapter 39. Race in the Schoolyard: Negotiating the Color Line in Classrooms and Communities
Chapter 40. Reproducing (and Disrupting) Heteronormativity: Gendered Sexual Socialization in Preschool Classrooms
Chapter 41. Judging School Discipline: A Crisis of Moral Authority
Chapter 42. “Tuck in That Shirt!” Race, Class, Gender, and Discipline in an Urban School
Chapter 43. Disciplining Play: Digital Youth Culture as Capital at School
PART IV. THE ORGANIZATIONAL ENVIRONMENT
Chapter 44. A Quiet Revolution
Chapter 45. Organizing School for Improvement: Lessons From Chicago
Chapter 46. Leadership Matters: Teachers’ Roles in School Decision Making and School Performance
Chapter 47. What Counts as Credible Research?
Chapter 48. Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites
Chapter 49. The (Mis)Education of Monica and Karen
Chapter 50. Inhabiting Latino Politics: How Colleges Shape Students’ Political Styles
The 4E reflects a number of trends in the field, including:
-advances in understanding the significance of the school community.
-renewed attention to the effects of racial segregation and resource inequality on student outcomes.
-a redefinition of what constitutes a school community with particular attention paid to specification of the institutional, as opposed to demographic, characteristics.
-broader investigation of both relevant school-level practices and significant individual-level outcomes associated with variation in schooling, including student behavior, delinquency, and crime.