ABSTRACT

Academic Distinctions is the most sustained and rigorous critique of radical sociology of school knowledge and its major figures to date. Using a variety of theoretical lenses to analyze and reconstitute the field--structuralist, poststructuralist and feminist--James Ladwig documents how the so-called "new sociologists of education" lost their theoretical way and failed to realize their educational goals.

chapter 1|12 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|38 pages

Constructing the Field

chapter 3|34 pages

Deconstructing the Field

chapter 4|19 pages

Reconstructing the Field, Partially

chapter 5|38 pages

Was the Critique of Positivism a Mistake?

chapter 6|18 pages

Wherein Lies the Scientific Rhetoric?

chapter 7|11 pages

Constructing a Science with an Attitude