Title: School and society /
Authors: Feinberg, Walter, 1937-; Soltis, Jonas F.
Publisher: Teachers College Press,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Educational sociology.
Contents: pt. I. The Relation of School to Society. Ch. 1. What This Book Is About. Factory Prep Society. An Imaginary Society. Three Schools of Thought. The Form of the Book -- pt. II. Schooling as Socialization and Progress. Ch. 2. The Functionalist Perspective on Schooling. Functionalism. Equality of Educational Opportunity. Educational Reform: Three Cases. Assimilation, Political Socialization, and Modernization. Ch. 3. Functional Theory, Policy, and Problems. Historical Impediments and Compensatory Education. Intellectual and Cultural Impediments. Poverty. Problems with Functionalism --^