Schools and societies
By: Steven Brint.
Series: Sociology for a new century
Publisher: Pine Forge Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
Subjects: Educational sociology -- United States; Schools -- United States -- Sociological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-332) and index.
Table of contents: title: Schools as social institutions; title: Schooling in the industrialized world; title: Schooling in the developing world; title: Schools and the transmission of knowledge; title: Schools and socialization; title: Schools and social selection, 1 : Opportunity; title: Schools and social selection, 2 : Inequality; title: Teaching and learning in comparative perspective; title: School reform and the possibilities of schooling.