Schools and Society
A Sociological Approach to Education

Sixth Edition

Edited by:

Jeanne H. Ballantine - Wright State University, USA
Joan Z. Spade - The College at Brockport, State University of New York
Jenny M. Stuber - University of North Florida

Other Titles in:
Sociology of Education | Sociology of Education

October 2017 | 528 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

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.

Chapter 1: What Is Sociology of Education? Theoretical Perspectives

Reading 1. Sociology of Education: A Unique Perspective for Understanding Schools

Jeanne H. Ballantine and Flloyd M. Hammack

Reading 2. Getting Started: Understanding Education Through Sociological Theory

Jeanne H. Ballantine and Joan

Reading 3. Moral Education

Emily Durkheim

Reading 4. Conflict Theory of Educational Stratification

Randall Collins

Reading 5. Social Reproduction

David Swartz

Reading 6. On Understanding the Process of Schooling: The Contributions of Labeling Theory

Ray C. Rist

Chapter 2: Studying Schools: Research Methods in Education

Reading 7. Chilly Classrooms for Female Undergraduate Students: A Question of Method?

Elizabeth J. Allan and Mary Madden

Reading 8. Small Class Size and Its Effects

Bruce J. Biddle and David C. Berliner

Reading 9. How to Avoid Statistical Traps

Gerald W. Bracey

Chapter 3: Schooling in a Social Context: Educational Environments

Reading 10. The Structure of Educational Organizations

John. W. Meyer and Brian Rowan

Reading 11. A Broader and Bolder Approach Uses Education to Break the Cycle of Poverty

Pedro A. Noguera

Reading 12. Good Schools, Rich Schools; Bad Schools, Poor Schools: Why America's Public Schools are so Unequal

Alana Semuels

Reading 13. Coached for the Classroom: Parents' Cultural Transmission and Children's Reproduction of Educational Inequalities

Jessica McCrory Calarco

Chapter 4: Schools as Organizations: Formal and Informal Education

Reading 14. How Schools Work

Rebecca Barra and Robert Dreeben

Reading 15. Learning the Student Role: Kindergarten as Academic Boot Camp

Harry L. Gracey

Reading 16. Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Preschools

Karin A. Martin

Reading 17. "Why Can't We Learn About This?": Sexual Minority Students Navigate the Official and Hidden Curricular Spaces of High School

Ingrid E. Castro and Mark Conor Sujak

Reading 18. Academic Learning + Socioemotional Learning=National Priority

Roger P. Weissberg and Jason Cascarino

Chapter 5: Roles and Responsibilities: Administrators, Teachers, and Students

Reading 19. School Boards: Why American Education Needs Them

Anne L. Bryant

Reading 20. School Principal: Complications and Complexities

Dan C. Lortie

Reading 21. The Status of Teaching as a Profession

Richard M. Ingersoll and Gregory Collins

Reading 22. Perils and Promises: Middle-Class Parental Involvement in Urban Schools

Maria Bloomfield Cucchiara and Erin McNamara Horvat

Reading 23. Make Students Part of the Solution, Not the Problem

Trevor Gardner

Chapter 6: What We Teach in Schools: Knowledge for What and for Whom?

Reading 24. Monuments Between Covers: The Politics of Textbooks

David Tyack

Reading 25. The Changing Face of War in Textbooks: Depictions of World War II and Vietnam, 1970-2009

Richard Lachmann and Lacy Mitchell

Reading 26. Facts or Critical Thinking Skills? What NAEP Results Say

Harold Wenglinsky

Chapter 7: Who Gets Ahead? Race, Class, and Gender in Education

Reading 27. Growing Income Inequality Threatens American Education

Greg J. Duncan and Richard J. Murnane

Reading 28. The Rules of the Game and the Uncertain Transmission of Advantage: Middle-class Parents' Search for an Urban Kindergarten

Annetee Lareau, Shani Adia Evans, and April Yee

Reading 29. The Geography of Inequality: Why Separate Means Unequal in American Public Schools

John R. Logan, Elisabeta Mica, and Sinem Adar

Reading 30. Explaining Racial Variations in Education

Caroline Hodges Persell

Reading 31. "Rednecks," "Rutters," and "Rithmetic": Social Class, Masculinity, and Schooling in a Rural Context

Edward W. Morris

Reading 32. Gender and Education

Roslyn Arlin Michelson

Chapter 8: Education and Opportunity: Attempts at Equality and Equity in Education

Reading 33. Lessons Forgotten

Gary Orfield

Reading 34. Only Here for a Day: Social Integration of Minority Students at a Majority White High School

Megan M. Holland

Reading 35. The Challenge of Diverse Public Schools

Toby L. Parcel, Joshua A. Hedrix, and Andrew J. Taylor

Reading 36. Charter Schools and the Risk of Increased Segregation

Iris C. Roterg

Reading 37. High Stakes Testing Hasn't Brought Education Gains

Judith Browne Dianis, John H. Jackson, and Pedro Noguera

Reading 38. Organizing for Success: From Inequality to Quality

Linda Darling-Hammond

Chapter 9: Higher Education

Reading 39. The Unintended Decentering of Teaching and Learning

Gaye Tuchman

Reading 40. Beyond the One-Size-Fits All College Degree

James Rosenbaum, Kenna Cepa, and Janet Rosenbaum

Reading 41. The Not-So-Pink Ivory Tower

Ann Mullen

Reading 42. At the Activities Fair: How Class and Culture Matter for Becoming Involved in College

Jenny Stuber

Reading 43. Friends with Academic Benefits

Janice McCabe

Chapter 10: Globalization and Education: Comparing Global Systems

Reading 44. A Global Compact on Learning: Taking Action on Education in Developing Countries

Brookings Institution

Reading 45. Inexcusable Absence: Who Are the Out-of-School Girls - and What Can Be Done to Get Them in School?

Maureen A. Lewis and Marlaine E. Lockheed

Reading 46. Globalization and the Growth of International Educational Testing and Assessment

David H. Kamens and Connie L. McNeely

Reading 47. Too Many Children Left Behind: The U.S. Achievement Gap in Comparative Perspective

Bruce Bradbury, Miles Corak, Jane Waldfogel, and Elizabeth Washbrook

Chapter 11: Can Schools Change? Educational Reform and Change

Reading 48. Deschooling Society

Ivan Illich

Reading 49. How Schools Really Matter

Douglass B. Downey and Benjamin G. Gibbs

Reading 50. Can Schooling Contribute to a More Just Society?

Michael W. Apple

Reading 51. The Paradox of Success at a No-Excuses School

Joanne W. Golann

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“The readings included in Ballantine, Spade, and Stuber’s reader are challenging yet informative, and they cover a broad spectrum of educational issues appropriate for an upper-level undergraduate Sociology of Education course. The introductions to each section do a nice job of summarizing what is to follow in the articles and explain clearly how the articles tie together.”

Lee Millar Bidwell

Longwood University

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