Handbook of the sociology of education
By: edited by Maureen T. Hallinan.
Contributors: Hallinan, Maureen T.
Series: Handbooks of sociology and social research
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 588
Subjects: Educational sociology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Sociology of education at the threshold of the twenty-first century / Maureen T. Hallinan; title: School as context and construction : a social psychological approach to the study of schooling / Charles E. Bidwell; title: The organizational context of teaching and learning : changing theoretical perspectives / Adam Gamoran, Walter G. Secada, and Cora B. Marrett; title: On the linkages between sociology of race and ethnicity and sociology of education / Maureen T. Hallinan; title: Research and theory on equality and education / Kathleen Lynch; title: Structural effects in education : a history of an idea / Robert Dreeben; title: School effects : theoretical and methodological issues / Aage B. Sørensen and Stephen L. Morgan; title: Development and education / Colette Chabbott and Francisco O. Ramirez; title: The content of the curriculum : an institutionalist perspective / Elizabeth H. McEneaney and John W. Meyer; title: Comparative and historical patterns of education / Randall Collins; title: The limits of growth : school expansion and school reform in historical perspective [sic] / Pamela Barnhouse Walters; title: Equitable classrooms in a changing society / Elizabeth G. Cohen; title: Connecting home, school, and community : new directions for social research / Joyce L. Epstein and Mavis G. Sanders; title: The variable construction of educational risk / John G. Richardson; title: School size and the organization of secondary schools / Valerie E. Lee; title: Comparative sociology of classroom processes, school organization, and achievement / David P. Baker and Gerald K. LeTendre; title: Social systems and norms : a Coleman approach / Barbara Schneider; title: Values, control, and outcomes in public and private schools / Caroline Hodges Persell; title: Interactions between high schools and labor markets / James E. Rosenbaum and Stephanie Alter Jones; title: Vocational secondary education, tracking, and social stratification / Yossi Shavit and Walter Müller; title: Transition from school to work in comparative perspective / Alan C. Kerckhoff; title: Pathways from school to work in Germany and the United States / Jeylan T. Mortimer and Helga Krüger; title: The effects of schooling on individual lives / Aaron M. Pallas; title: Accountability in education / Thomas B. Hoffer; title: Tribute to David Lee Stevenson; title: The fit and misfit of sociological research and educational policy / David Lee Stevenson.