Sociology of education : emerging perspectives /

"Sociology of Education discusses emerging theoretical and methodological approaches to the field of sociology of education. These emerging perspectives focus on the scholarship of class, race, gender and the state in education, and open up new avenues for theoretical and empirical work in the...

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Other Authors: Torres, Carlos Alberto, Mitchell, Theodore R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1998.
Series:SUNY series on urban public policy
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Table of Contents:
  • Education and the reproduction of class, gender, and race : responding to the postmodern challenge / Raymond A. Morrow and Carlos Alberto Torres
  • The sociology of knowledge and the sociology of education : Michel Foucault and critical traditions / Thomas S. Popkewitz
  • Becoming right : education and the formation of conservative movements / Michael W Apple and Anita Oliver
  • Social closure, professional domination, and the new middle strata : rethinking credentialist theories of education / Raymond A. Morrow and Carlos Alberto Torres
  • Critical pedagogy as performative practice : memories of whiteness / Henry A. Giroux
  • Tracking, detracking, and the politics of educational reform : a sociological perspective / Amy Stuart Wells and Jeannie Oakes
  • Structuring college opportunities : a cross-case analysis of organizational cultures, climates, and habiti / Patricia M. McDonough
  • Critical race theory : marginality and the experience of students of color in higher education / Daniel G. Solorzano and Octavio Villalpando
  • Historical perspectives on class and race in education : the case of school reform in the New South, 1890-1910 / Theodore R. Mitchell
  • From Soweto to the South Bronx : African Americans and colonial education in the United States / Gloria Ladson-Billings.