Sociology Of Education Bibliography

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Goffman, Erving. 1961. Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Co.

Stodolsky, Susan. 1988. The Subject Matters. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press.

Lortie, Dan. 1975. Schoolteacher: A Sociological Study: Univ. of Chicago Press.

Metz, Mary. 1978. Classrooms and Corridors: The Crisis of Authority in Desegregated Schools. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Barr and Dreeben. 1983. How Schools Work. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press.

Arum, Richard and Irenee R. Beattie, eds. 2000. The Structure of Schooling: Readings in the Sociology of Education. London: Mayfield Press. (Highly recommended as introductory/overview text)

Bidwell, Charles and Friedkin, Noah. 1988. "The Sociology of Education." Pp. 449-471 in Neil J. Smelser (ed.), Handbook of Sociology. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publishing Co. (Reader)

Boocock, Sarane S. 1973. "The School as a Social Environment for Learning: Social Organization and Micro-Social Process in Education." Sociology of Education 46: 15-50.

Dreeben, Robert. 1994. "The Sociology of Education: Its Development om the United States," pp. 7-52 in Research in Sociology of Education and Socialization, vol 16. Aaron Pallas (ed.). Greenwich CT: JAI Press.

Coleman, James S. 1994. "A Vision for Sociology." Society, November.

Schools as Social Systems and Organization: Bidwell, Charles E. 1965. "The School as a Formal Organization." In the Handbook of Organizations, J. G. March ed., 972-1022. Chicago: Rand McNally. (Reader)

Weick, Karl. 1976. "Educational Organizations as Loosely Coupled Systems." Administrative Science Quarterly 21, 1: 1-19.

Meyer, John and Rowan, Brian. 1978. " The Structure of Educational Organizations." In Environments and Organizations, by Meyer, Marshall W. and Associates. San Francisco, California: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

Parsons, Talcott. 1959. "The School Class as a Social System." Harvard Educational Review 29: 297-318.

Coleman, James S. 1993. "The Design of Organizations and the Right to Act." Sociological Forum 8, 4: 527-546.

Cookson, Peter, et. al. 1985. Preparing for Power. New York: Basic Books.

Cumins, Jim. 1986. "Empowering Minority Students: A Framework for Intervention." Harvard Educational Review 56, 1: 18-35

Deyhle, Donna. 1995. "Navajo Youth and Anglo Racism: Cultural Integrity and Resistance." Harvard Educational Review 65, 3: 403-444.

Fordham, Signithia. 1996. Blacked Out: Dilemmas of Race, Identity, and Success at Capital High. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Fordham, Signithia and Ogbu, John. 1986. "Black StudentsÌ School Success: Coping With the Burden of 'Acting White.'" Urban Review 18: 176-206.

Goodwin, Marjorie. 1980. "He-Said-She-Said: Formal Cultural Procedures for the Construction of a Gossip Dispute Activity." American Ethnologist: 674-694.

McLaren, Peter. 1986. Schooling as a Ritual Performance: Towards a Political Economy of Educational Symbols and Gestures. New York: Routledge (Chapters 1-4).

Ogbu, John U. 1978. Minority Education and Caste: The American System in Cross-Cultural Perspective. New York: Academic Press.

Ogbu, John. 1987. "Variability in Minority School Performance: A Problem in Search of an Explanation. Anthropology and Education Quarterly 18: 312-334.

Treuba, Henry. 1987. "Culturally Based Explanations of Minority StudentsÌ Academic Achievement." Anthropology and Education Quarterly 18: 270-287.

Willis, Paul. 1977. Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs. New York: Columbia University Press (Chapters 1-4).

*Lortie, Dan. 1975. Schoolteacher: A Sociological Study. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (pages 25-161).

Siskin, Leslie S. 1994. Realms of Knowledge: Academic Departments in Secondary Schools. Washington, D.C.: Falmer Press (Skim text - recommended).

Waller, Willard. 1932. The Sociology of Teaching. New York: Russell & Russell. Chapters 14-23 (Pp. 189-440).

Bidwell, Charles and Pamela Quiroz. 1991. "Organizational Control in the High School Workplace: A Theoretical Argument." Journal of Research on Adolescence 1: 211-29.

Bidwell, Charles, Kenneth Frank and Pamela Quiroz. 1997. "Teacher Types, Workplace Controls, and the Organization of Schools." Sociology of Education 70: 285-307.

Bidwell, Charles and Yasumoto, Jeff. 1999. "The Collegial Focus: Teaching Fields, Colleague Relationships, and Instructional Practice in American High Schools." Sociology of Education 72, 4: 234-256.

Rowan, Brian. 1990. "Commitment and Control: Alternative Strategies for the Organizational Design of Schools." Review of Research in Education 16: 359-389.

Administrators
Wolcott, Harry F. 1973. The Man in the PrincipalÌs Office: An Ethnography. Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press. (Skim)

Gross, Neal and Robert E. Herriot. 1965. Staff Leadership in Public Schools: A Sociological Inquiry. New York: John Wiley and Sons.

Gross, Neal and Anne E. Trask. 1976. The Sex Factor and the Management of Schools. New York: John Wiley and Sons.

Moral Socialization and Authority In Schools: Monday, 4/30 and Wednesday, 5/2
*Metz, Mary. 1978. Classrooms and Corridors: The Crisis of Authority in Desegregated Schools. Berkeley: University of California Press. (pp. 1-144) (Reader)

*Hurn, Christopher. 1985. "Changes in Authority Relationships in Schools 1960-1980." Research in Sociology of Education and Socialization 5: 31-57. (Reader)

Jackson, Philip, Robert Boostrom, and David Hansen. 1993. The Moral Life of Schools. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Jackson, Phillip. 1968. Life in Classrooms. NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

McNeil, Linda. 1986. Contradictions of Control: School Structure and School Knowledge. New York: Routledge Press.

Swidler, Ann. 1979. Organization Without Authority: Dilemmas of Social Control in Free Schools. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Friedkin, Noah, Scott L. Thomas. 1997. "Social Positions in Schooling." Sociology of Education, 70: 239-256.

Gambetta, Diego. 1987. Were they Pushed or Did they Jump? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 1-100.

Gamoran, Adam. 1987. "The Stratification of High School Learning Opportunities." Sociology of Education 60: 135-156.

Hallinan, Maureen. 1994. "Tracking, From Theory to Practice" & "Further Thoughts on Tracking." Sociology of Education, 67: 79-83 & 89-90.

Oakes, Jeannie. 1986. Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Stevenson, David, Katherine Schiller, and Barbara Schnieder. 1993. "Sequences of Opportunities for Learning." Sociology of Education 67, 3: 184-198. (highly recommended)

*Schiller, Kathryn S. 1999. "Effects of Feeder Patterns on Students Transition to High School." Sociology of Education 72, 1: 216-233. (Reader)

*Hallinan, Marueen. 1996a. "Track Mobility in Secondary School." Social Forces 74 (3): 983-1002. (Reader)

-----. 1996b. "Race Effects on StudentsÌ Track Mobility In High School." Social Psychology of Education 1: 1-24.

Hallinan, Maureen and Aage Sorenson. 1986. "Student Characteristics and Assignment to Ability Groups: Two Conceptual Formulations." Sociological Quarterly 27(1): 1-13.

Kerckhoff, Alan C. 1993. Diverging Pathways: Social Structure and Career Deflections." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapters 1 and 8.

Lucas, Samuel R. 1999. Tracking Inequality: Stratification and Mobility in American High Schools. New York: Teachers College Press. (highly recommended to graduate students with general statistics background)
Rosenbaum, James E. 1978. "The Structure of Opportunity in School." Social Forces 57: 236-256. (Highly recommended)

-----. 1990. "Structural Models of Organizational Careers: A Critical Review and New Directions." In Social Mobility and Social Structure, pp. 272-307. Ronald Breiger, editor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Classroom Composition and Ability Grouping: Monday, 5/14

*Barr and Dreeben. 1983. How Schools Work. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (pp. 1-11, 43-68 - Reader)

*Dreeben, Robert and Rebecca Barr. 1988. "Classroom Composition and the Design of Instruction." Sociology of Education 61: 129-142. (Reader)

*Hallinan, Maureen T. 1988. "School Composition and Learning: A Critique of the Dreeben-Barr Model." Sociology of Education 61: 143-146. (Reader)

Gamoran, Adam. 1986. "Instructional and Institutional Effects of Ability Grouping." Sociology of Education 59: 185-198.

Hallinan, Maureen T. and Aage Sorenson. 1983. "The Formation and Stability of Instructional Groups." American Sociological Review 48: 838-851.

Rosenholtz, Susan J. and Stephen Rosenholtz. 1981. "Classroom Organization and the Perception of Ability." Sociology of Education 54: 132-140.

Simpson, Carl. 1981. "Classroom Structure and the Organization of Ability." Sociology of Education 54: 120-132.

*Stodolsky, Susan. 1988. The Subject Matters. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (all)

*Stein, Mary Kay, Barbara Grover, Marjorie Henningsen. 1996. "Building Student Capacity for Mathematical Thinking and Reasoning." American Educational Research Journal 33, 2: 455-488. (Reader)

*Yair, Gad. 2000. "Educational Battefields in America: The Tug of War Over StudentsÌ Engagement With Instruction." Sociology of Education 73: 247-269. (Reader)

Stodolsky, Susan S. and Grossman, Pamela L. 1995. "The Impact of Subject matter on Curricular Activity: An Analysis of Five Academic Subjects." American Educational Research Journal 32, 2: 227-249.

Harouttunian-Gordon, Sophie. 1991. Turning the Soul: Teaching Through Conversation in the High School. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Brophy, Jere E. and Thomas L. Good. 1987. Looking in Classrooms. Addison-Wesley Co.

Michaels, James W. 1977. "Classroom Reward Structures and Academic Performance." Review of Educational Research 47, 1: 87-98.

Task Influence on Peer Relations: Wednesday, 5/16

*Hallinan, Maureen T. 1976. "Friendship Patterns in Open and Traditional Classrooms." Sociology of Education 49: 254-265. (Reader)

----- 1989. "Classroom Characteristics and Student Friendship Cliques." Social Forces 67, 4: 898-919.

Hallinan, Maureen T. and Nancy Tuma. 1978. "Classroom Effects on Change in ChildrenÌs Friendships." Sociology of Education 51: 270-282.

Hansell, Stephen and Robert Slavin. 1981. "Cooperative Learning and the Structure of Interracial Friendships." Sociology of Education 54: 98-106.

Bossert, Stephen. 1977. Tasks and Social Relationships in Classrooms: A Study of Instructional Organization and Its Consequences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Highly recommended)

Plank, Stephen. 2000. Finding OneÌs Place: Teaching Styles and Peer Relations in Diverse Classrooms. New York: TeacherÌs College. (Highly recommended)

*Coleman, James S. 1959. "Academic Achievement and the Structure of Competition." Harvard Educational Review 29, 4: 330-351. (Reader)

*Quiroz, Pamela. Nilda Gonzales, and Kenneth Frank. 1996. "Carving a Niche in the High School Social Structure: Formal and Informal Constraints on Participation in the Extra-Curriculum." Research in Sociology of Education and Socialization 11: 93-120. (Reader)

*McNeal, Ralph. 1998. "High School Extracurricular Activities: Closed Structures and Stratifying Patterns of Participation." The Journal of Educational Research 91, 3: 183-191. (Reader)

-----. 1995. "Extracurricular Activities and High School Dropouts." Sociology of Education 68, 1: 62-80.

Gordon, Calvin Wayne. 1957. The Social System of the High School; a Study in the Sociology of Adolescence. Glencoe, Ill., Free Press. Chapter 4.

Spady, W. 1970. "Lament for the Letterman: Effects of Peer Status and Extracurricular Activities on Goals and Achievement." American Journal of Sociology 75: 680-701.

Vaughn, R. 1968. "Involvement in Extracurricular Activities and Dropout." Journal of College Student Personnel 9: 60-61.

School Culture
Becker, Howard S, Blanche Geer, and Everett C. Hughes. 1968. Making the Grade: The Academic Side of College Life. New York: John Wiley and Sons.

Hughes, Everett C., Howard Becker, and Blanche Geer. 1962. "Student Culture and Academic Effort." Pages 515-30, in The American College, Nevitt Sanford ed. New York: John Wiley and Sons.

Lesko, Nancy. 1988. Symbolizing Society : Stories, Rites, and Structure in a Catholic High School. Education Policy Perspectives Series.

*Kinney, David A. 1993. "From Nerds to Normals: The Recovery of Identity Among Adolescents from Middle School to High School." Sociology of Education 66, 1: 21-40. (Reader)

*Canaan, Joyce. 1987. "A Comparative Analysis of American Suburban, Middle class, Middle School, and High School Teenage Cliques." In Interpretive Ethnography of Education: At Home and Abroad. Eds. G. and L. Spindler. London: LEA. (Reader)

Brown, Bradford B. 1986. "The Importance of Peer Group ("Crowd") Affiliation in Adolescence." Journal of Adolescence 9, 1: 73-96.

----- 1989. "The Role of Peer Groups in Adolescents' Adjustment to Secondary School." T. Berndt & G. Ladd (Eds.), Peer Relationships in Child Development (pp. 188-215).

Penelope Eckert. 1989. Jocks and Burnouts: Social Categories and Identity in the High School. New York: Teachers College Press.

*Eder, Donna & Parker, Stephen. 1987. "Reproduction of Gender: The Effect of Extracurricular Activities on Peer-Group Culture." Sociology of Education 60, 3: 200-213. (Reader)

*Eder, Donna. 1986. "The Cycle of Popularity: Interpersonal Relations Among Female Adolescents." Sociology of Education 58, 3: 154-166. (Reader)

*Merten, Don E. 1998. "The Meaning of Meanness: Popularity, Competition, and Conflict Among Junior High School Girls." Sociology of Education 70, 3: 175-191. (Reader)

*Giordano, Peggy. 1995. "The Wider Circle of Friends in Adolescence." American Journal of Sociology 101, 3: 661-697. (Reader)

Coleman, James S. 1961. Adolescent Society. New York: Free Press. Chapter 7. (highly recommended)

Cottrell, John. 1996. Social Networks and Social Influences in Adolescence. New York: Routledge Press.

Cusick, Phillip. 1973. Inside High School: The StudentÌs World. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. (higly recommended)

Epstein, Joyce Levy and Nancy Karweit. 1983. Friends in School: Patterns of Selection and Influence in Secondary Schools. New York: Academic Press.

Kandel, Denise B. 1978. "Homophily, Selection, and Socialization in Adolescent Friendships" American Journal of Sociology 84, 2: 427-436.

Shrum, Wesley and Neil Cheek. 1987. "Social Structure During the School Years: Onset of the Degrouping Process." American Sociological Review 52: 218-223.

*Coleman, James S. 1988. "Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital." American Journal of Sociology 94: s95-s120. (Reader)

*Sandefeur, Rebecca L. and Edward Laumann. 1998. "A Paradigm for Social Capital." Rationality and Society 10, 4: 481-501. (Reader)

Carbonaro, William. 1998. "A Little Help From My FriendÌs Parents: Intergenerational Closure and Educational Outcomes." Sociology of Education 71: 295-313.

Morgan, Stephen L. and Aage Sorenson. 1999. "A Test of ColemanÌs Social Capital Explanation of School Effects."ð American Sociological Review 64, 5: 661-681.

Hallinan,Maureen T. and Warren Kubitschek. 1999. "Conceputalizing and Measuring School Social Networks: Comment on Morgan and Sorenson." American Sociological Review 64, 5: 687-693.

Carbonaro, William J. 1999. "Opening the Debate on Closure and Schooling Outcomes: Comment on Morgan and Sorenson." American Sociological Review 64, 5: 682-686.

Morgan, Stephen L. and Aage Sorenson. 1999. "Theory, Measurement, and Specification Issues in Models of Network Effects on Learning: Reply to Carbonaro and to Hallinan and Kubitschek." American Sociological Review 64, 5: 694-700.

Cultural Capital:
*DiMaggio, Paul and John Mohr. 1985. "Cultural Capital, Educational Attainment, and Marital Selection." American Journal of Sociology 90, 6: 1231-1261. (Reader)

*Lareau, Annette and Erin Horvat. 1999. "Moments of Social Inclusion and Exclusion: Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in Family-School Relationships." Sociology of Education 72: 37-53. (Reader)

Lareau, Annette. 1987. "Social Class and Family-School Relationships: The Importance of Cultural Capital." Sociology of Education 56: 73-85.

DiMaggio, Paul. 1982. "Cultural Capital and School Success: The Impact of Status Culture Participation on the Grades of U.S. High School Students." American Sociological Review 47: 189-201.

Lareau, Annette and Erin McNamara Horvat. 1999. "Moments of Social Inclusion and Exclusion: Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in Family-School Relationships." Sociology of Education 72, 1: 37-53.

Selected List of Case Studies:

Bossert, Stephen. 1977. Tasks and Social Relationships in Classrooms: A Study of Instructional Organization and Its Consequences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Bryk, Tony, Valerie Lee, and Peter Holland. 1993. Catholic Schools and the Common Good. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Coleman, James S. 1961. Adolescent Society. New York: Free Press.

Cookson, Peter, et. al. 1985. Preparing for Power. New York: Basic Books.

Cusick, Phillip A. 1983. The Egalitarian Ideal and the American High School. New York: Longman.

Cusick, Phillip. 1973. Inside High School: The StudentÌs World. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Eder, Donna. 1995. School Talk: Gender and Adolescent Culture. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.

Fichter, Joseph H. 1958. Parochial School. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame.

Gordon, Calvin Wayne. 1957. The Social System of the High School; a Study in the Sociology of Adolescence. Glencoe, Ill., Free Press.

Grant, Gerald. 1988. The World We Created at Hamilton High. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Harouttunian-Gordon, Sophie. 1991. Turning the Soul: Teaching Through Conversation in the High School. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Hollingshead, A. B. 1949. ElmtownÌs Youth: The Impact of Social Classes on Adolescents. New York: John Wiley.

Jackson, Philip, Robert Boostrom, and David Hansen. 1993. The Moral Life of Schools. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Jackson, Phillip. 1968. Life in Classrooms. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Lesko, Nancy. 1988. Symbolizing Society : Stories, Rites, and Structure in a Catholic High School. Education Policy Perspectives Series.

McLaren, Peter. 1986. Schooling as a Ritual Performance: Towards a Political Economy of Educational Symbols and Gestures. New York: Routledge (Chapters 1-4).

McNeil, Linda. 1986. Contradictions of Control: School Structure and School Knowledge. New York: Routledge Press.
Metz, Mary. 1986. Different by Design: The Context and Character of Three Middle Schools. New York: Routledge Press.

Penelope Eckert. 1989. Jocks and Burnouts: Social Categories and Identity in the High School. New York: Teachers College Press.

Peshkin, Alan. 1986. GodÌs Choice: The Total World of a Fundamentalist Christian School. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Plank, Stephen. 2000. Finding OneÌs Place: Teaching Styles and Peer Relations in Diverse Classrooms. New York: TeacherÌs College. (Highly recommended)

Powell, Arthur, Eleanor Farrar, and David Cohen. 1986. The Shopping Mall High School: Winners and Losers in the Educational Marketplace. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.

Rosenbaum, James E. 1976. Making Inequality. New York: Wiley.

Siskin, Leslie S. 1994. Realms of Knowledge: Academic Departments in Secondary Schools. Washington, D.C.: Falmer Press

Stinchcombe, Arthur. 1964. Rebellion in a High School. Chicago: Quadrangle Books.

Swidler, Ann. 1979. Organization Without Authority: Dilemmas of Social Control in Free Schools. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Waller, Willard. 1932. The Sociology of Teaching. New York: Russell & Russell.

Willis, Paul. 1977. Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs. New York: Columbia University Press (Chapters 1-4).

Wolcott, Harry F. 1973. The Man in the PrincipalÌs Office: An Ethnography. Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press.