Title: Schools and societies /
Authors: Brint, Steven G.
Publisher: Pine Forge Press,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Educational sociology United States.; Schools United States Sociological aspects.
Contents: Schools as social institutions -- Schooling in the industrialized world -- Schooling in the developing world -- Schools and the transmission of knowledge -- Schools and socialization -- Schools and social selection, 1 : Opportunity -- Schools and social selection, 2 : Inequality -- Teaching and learning in comparative perspective -- School reform and the possibilities of schooling.