Inhalt: | The aim of the handbook is to present the most theoretically grounded and empirically rigorous sociological analysis of schools to date. The research presented in it is built on three fundamental tenets of sociology. First, the authors adopt the perspective that schools are a central institution in society. The second sociological insight is that the school is a social system. A third sociological insight is that social events depend on the interaction of macrolevel and microlevel processes. Content: Hallinan, Maureen T.: Introduction. Sociology of Education at the Threshold of the Twenty-first Century. - I. Theoretical and Methodological Orientations (1. Bidwell, Charles E.: School as context and construction. A social psychological approach to the study of schooling. - 2. Gamoran, Adam/Secada, Walter G./Marrett, Cora B.: The organizational context of teaching and learning. Changing theoretical perspectives. - 3. Hallinan, Maureen T.: On the linkages between sociology of race and ethnicity and sociology of education. - 4. Lynch, Kathleen: Research and theory on equality and education. - 5. Dreeben, Robert: Structural effects in education. A history of an idea. - 6. Sorensen, Aage B./Morgan, Stephen L.: School effects. Theoretical and methodological issues). - II. Development and expansion of education (7. Chabbott, Colette/Ramirez, Francisco O.: Development and education. - 8. McEneaney, Elizabeth H./Meyer, John W.: The content of the curriculum. An institutionalist perspective. - 9. Collins, Randall: Comparative and historical patterns of education. - 10. Barnhouse Walters, Pamela: The limits of growth. School expansion and school reform in historical perspective). - III. The study of access to schooling (11. Cohen, Elizabeth G.: Equitable classrooms in a changing society. - 12. Epstein, Joyce L./Sanders, Mavis G.: Connecting home, school, and community. New directions for social research. - 13. Richardson, John G.: The variable construction of educational risk). - IV. The study of school organization (14. Lee, Valerie E.: School size and the organization of secondary schools. - 15. Baker, David P./LeTendre, Gerald K.: Comparative Sociology of classroom processes, school organization, and achievement. - 16. Schneider, Barbara: Social systems and norms. A Coleman approach. - 17. Hodges Persell, Caroline: Values, control, and outcomes in public and private schools). - V. The study of school outcomes (18. Rosenbaum, James E./Alter Jones, Stephanie: Interact ... |
