| Description |
xv, 588 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Handbooks of sociology and social research |
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Handbooks of sociology and social research.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Sociology of education at the threshold of the twenty-first century / Maureen T. Hallinan -- School as context and construction : a social psychological approach to the study of schooling / Charles E. Bidwell -- The organizational context of teaching and learning : changing theoretical perspectives / Adam Gamoran, Walter G. Secada, and Cora B. Marrett -- On the linkages between sociology of race and ethnicity and sociology of education / Maureen T. Hallinan -- Research and theory on equality and education / Kathleen Lynch -- Structural effects in education : a history of an idea / Robert Dreeben -- School effects : theoretical and methodological issues / Aage B. Sørensen and Stephen L. Morgan -- Development and education / Colette Chabbott and Francisco O. Ramirez -- The content of the curriculum : an institutionalist perspective / Elizabeth H. McEneaney and John W. Meyer -- Comparative and historical patterns of education / Randall Collins -- The limits of growth : school expansion and school reform in historical perpective [sic] / Pamela Barnhouse Walters -- Equitable classrooms in a changing society / Elizabeth G. Cohen -- Connecting home, school, and community : new directions for social research / Joyce L. Epstein and Mavis G. Sanders -- The variable construction of educational risk / John G. Richardson -- School size and the organization of secondary schools / Valerie E. Lee -- Comparative sociology of classroom processes, school organization, and achievement / David P. Baker and Gerald K. LeTendre -- Social systems and norms : a Coleman approach / Barbara Schneider -- Values, control, and outcomes in public and private schools / Caroline Hodges Persell -- Interactions between high schools and labor markets / James E. Rosenbaum and Stephanie Alter Jones -- Vocational secondary education, tracking, and social stratification / Yossi Shavit and Walter Müller -- Transition from school to work in comparative perspective / Alan C. Kerckhoff -- Pathways from school to work in Germany and the United States / Jeylan T. Mortimer and Helga Krüger -- The effects of schooling on individual lives / Aaron M. Pallas -- Accountability in education / Thomas B. Hoffer -- Tribute to David Lee Stevenson -- The fit and misfit of sociological research and educational policy / David Lee Stevenson. |
| Subject |
Educational sociology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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| Added Author |
Hallinan, Maureen T.
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| ISBN |
0306462389 |
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