ABSTRACT
First Published in 2002. This single-volume reference provides readers and researchers with access to details on a wide range of topics and issues in the sociology of education. Entries cover both national and international perspectives and studies, as well as tackling controversial points in education today, including gender inequality, globalization, minorities, meritocracy, and more. This is a key, one-of-a-kind resource for all educational researchers and educators.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
entry |15 pages
Education and Sociology
entry |6 pages
Adolescence and Schools
entry |6 pages
Adult Education
entry |13 pages
Affirmative Action in Education
entry |5 pages
African-American Achievement Motivation
entry |6 pages
At-Risk Students
entry |11 pages
Bilingual Education
entry |7 pages
Brown v. Board of Education
entry |7 pages
Catholic Schools
entry |6 pages
Classroom Processes
entry |9 pages
Code Theory, Pedagogic Discourse, and Symbolic Control1
entry |11 pages
Community Colleges1
entry |4 pages
Conflict Theory
entry |5 pages
Cooperative Learning in Elementary and Secondary Schools1
entry |4 pages
Cultural Capital
entry |7 pages
Curriculum
entry |8 pages
Curriculum History
entry |9 pages
Desegregation
entry |17 pages
Desegregation of Higher Education
entry |12 pages
Economics of Education
entry |9 pages
Educational Achievement and Attainment in the United States
entry |7 pages
Educational Assessment
entry |4 pages
Educational Attitudes
entry |7 pages
Educational Productivity
entry |9 pages
Educational Reform and Sociology in England and Wales
entry |13 pages
Educational Reform in the United States: 1980s and 1990s1
entry |6 pages
Elites and Educational Reform
entry |6 pages
Equality in Education
entry |7 pages
Ethnicity
entry |6 pages
Ethnography
entry |5 pages
Extracurricular Activities
entry |5 pages
Functionalist Theories of Education
entry |7 pages
Gender and Education
entry |7 pages
Gender and Math Education
entry |5 pages
Gender Inequality
entry |6 pages
Gender Inequality in Education
entry |6 pages
Gender Socialization and Education
entry |7 pages
Globalization
entry |6 pages
High School Dropouts
entry |7 pages
Higher Education
entry |6 pages
Higher Education
entry |8 pages
Higher Education and Social Equality
entry |10 pages
Higher Education in the United States
entry |6 pages
Higher Education in the United States: Latinos
entry |6 pages
Historically Black Colleges
entry |5 pages
Home Schooling: Contemporary
entry |5 pages
Homeless Children and Youth
entry |3 pages
Human Capital Theory
entry |5 pages
Ideology and Curriculum
entry |5 pages
Imperialism and Education
entry |5 pages
International Competition and Education Crises
entry |4 pages
Iq
entry |6 pages
Longitudinal Studies
entry |12 pages
Longitudinal Studies Data Collection Program
entry |8 pages
Magnet Schools in Urban Education1
entry |6 pages
Mass Schooling
entry |8 pages
Meritocracy
entry |8 pages
Multiculturalism
entry |11 pages
Politics of Education1
entry |10 pages
Progressive Education1
entry |12 pages
Quasi-Markets in Education
entry |10 pages
Race and Education
entry |6 pages
Restructuring
entry |6 pages
School-Based Management
entry |12 pages
School Choice
entry |6 pages
School Effects
entry |8 pages
School, Family, and Community Partnerships
entry |5 pages
School Textbooks and Cultural Authority
entry |6 pages
Single-Sex Education and Coeducation
entry |6 pages
Social Capital
entry |7 pages
Social Reproduction
entry |11 pages
Sociology of Education as Critical Theory1
entry |15 pages
Sociology of Education
entry |6 pages
Sociology of Education
entry |5 pages
Sociology of Education
entry |6 pages
Sociology of Education
entry |8 pages
Sociology of Education
entry |6 pages
Sociology of Education
entry |6 pages
Special Education
entry |7 pages
Sport and Schooling
entry |6 pages
Structuralism
entry |5 pages
Student Cultures and Academic Achievement
entry |6 pages
Summer Learning
entry |7 pages
Teacher Assessment and Evaluation
entry |6 pages
Teacher Burnout
entry |16 pages
Teacher Unions, Old and New*
entry |5 pages
Teachers and Teaching
entry |6 pages
Tracking
entry |11 pages
Urban Schools
entry |6 pages
Vocational Education
entry |5 pages
Working Parents
