Sociology of Education Today
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: June 2, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780333778296
Subjects: Sociology, Social Studies; Education; Sociology; Textbooks; General; Social Science / Sociology / General; History; Educational sociology
First sentence: In this chapter I want to argue that much of the subject matter, theoretical inclinations, meta-theoretical assumptions and methodologies that characterize the sociology of education can be seen to emerge, not so much from a conscious process of academic or intellectual deliberation, as from the operation of what I will refer to as a 'selection principle'.