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In recent decades, sociology of education has been dominated by quantitative analyses of race, class, and gender gaps in educational achievement. And while there's no question that such work is important, it leaves a lot of other fruitful areas of inquiry unstudied. This book takes that problem...
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The University of Chicago Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Chicago, IL : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
In recent decades, sociology of education has been dominated by quantitative analyses of race, class, and gender gaps in educational achievement. And while there's no question that such work is important, it leaves a lot of other fruitful areas of inquiry unstudied. This book takes that problem seriously, considering the way the field has developed since the 1960s and arguing powerfully for its renewal. The sociology of education, the contributors show, largely works with themes, concepts, and theories that were generated decades ago, even as both the actual world of education and the discipline of sociology have changed considerably. The moment has come, they argue, to break free of the past and begin asking new questions and developing new programs of empirical study. Both rallying cry and road map, Education in a New Society will galvanize the field. |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 425 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9780226517421 022651742X 9780226517391 022651739X |
| Index Number: | LC191 |
| CLC: | G40-052 |
| Call Number: | G40-052/E246-1 |
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Foreword: A much-needed project / Education in a new society: renewing the sociology of education / Social theory and the coming schooled society / The deepening interpenetration of education in modern life / An institutional geography of knowledge exchange: producers, exports, imports, trade routes, and metacognitive metropoles / Professional education in the university context: toward an inhabited institutional view of socialization / Talking pigs? lessons from elite schooling / What's up with assessment? / College and university campuses as sites for political formation: a cultural-organizational approach / Digital badges and higher education in a new society: a Bersteinian analysis / Research universities and the global battle for the brains / The expansion of the "school form" and deepening inequality / Reopening the black box of educational disadvantage: why we need new answers to old questions / Schools as great distractors: why socioeconomic-based achievement gaps persist / Race and white supremacy in the sociology of education: shifting the Intellectual gaze / Race, ethnicity, and cultural processes in education: new approaches for new times / Claim no easy victories: some notes toward a fearless sociology of education / Epilogue : What next for the sociology of education? / |