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EDUCATION AND THE WORLD OF WORK - SYLLABUS
College of Education - The University of Iowa

SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON EDUCATION POLICY - Univ of Oregon Syllabus

Sociology of Education - Soc 345 Syllabus - Professor Cati Coe - Rutgers University

Syllabus - Sociology of Education - Stanford University

Sociology of Education Syllabus - Instructor: John Modell - brown.edu

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-PARKSIDE
SYLABUS - SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION

Instructor: Pat Goldsmith - E-mail:goldsmip@uwp.edu

This course examines education using the sociological perspective. The course will focus
upon important, enduring issues within the sociology of education in addition to a few
controversial issues currently under debate. Through different theoretical perspectives,
education is analyzed as a key social institution that influences and is influenced by the larger society. Particular attention is paid to questions about the relationship between social stratification and education. For example,

How is the structure and content of schools affected by social conflicts?

How does educational attainment affect an individuals (or your) economic status? And

Why? Does education promote economic growth?

Student competencies learned in this course:

Discerning and identifying different theoretical perspectives.

Demonstrating critical, conceptual thinking.

Assessing and applying theoretical frameworks to social realities.

To critically evaluate research findings.

Reading and writing at a college level.

Promoting civility and civil discourse.

Identifying social problems and framing them conceptually.

Required books

Arum, Richard and Irenee Beatie. 2000. The Structure of Schooling: Readings in the
sociology of education. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield.

Grant, Gerald. 1988. The world we created at Hamilton High. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press.

On Reserve
Hurn, Christopher J. 1993 (3rd). “Theories of schooling and society: The functional and conflict paradigms.” In The limits and possibilities of schooling: An introduction to the sociology of education.

Syllabus - Sociology of Education - Stanford University ed.stanford.edu/~mcfarland/SocEd.htm

Sociology of Education: The Social Organization of Schools
Education 310/210 Sociology 330/232 (4 Units)

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: University 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: University 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.

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

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, pages 29-34.

Schools as Social Systems and Organization: Wednesday, 4/4
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.

Case Study of a Public Institution: Monday, 4/9 and Monday, 4/16

Goffman, Erving. 1961. Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Co. (Pp. 1-124, 171-320).

Monday, 4/9 - "On the characteristics of Total Institutions." Pp. 1-124.

Monday 4/16 - "The Underlife of a Public Institution." Pp. 171-320.

Stratification Within and Between Schools: Wednesday, 4/18

Cookson, Peter and Caroline Persell. "The Chosen Ones" (Reader)

Bryk, Anthony, Valerie Lee, and Peter Holland. "Classroom Life" (Reader)

Coleman, James, E. Campbell, C. Hobson, J. McPartland, A. Mood, F. Weinfeld, and R. York. "The Coleman Report." (Reader)

Jencks, Cristopher, M. Smith, H. Acland, M. Bane, D. Cohen, H. Gintis, B. Heyns, and S. Michelson. "Inequality in Educational Attainment." (Reader)

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

Race, Class and Gender: Monday, 4/23

Willis, Paul. "Elements of a Culture." (Reader)

MacLeod, Jay. "Teenagers in Clarendon Heights: The Hallway Hangers and the Brothers." (Reader)

Fordham, Signithia and John Ogbu. "Black StudentsÌ School Success: Coping with the "Burden of 'Acting White'". (Reader)

Jencks, Christopher and Meredith Phillips. "AmericaÌs Next Achievement Test: Closing the Black-White Test Score Gap." (Reader)

Mickelson, Roslyn. "Why Does Jane Read and Write So Well? The Anomaly of Women's Achievement." (Reader)

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).

Faculty and Administrative Subunits: Wednesday, 4/25
Teachers
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. New York: 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.

Curricular Differentiation: Monday, 5/7
Sorenson, Aage B. 1970. "Organizational Differentiation of Students and Educational Opportunity." Sociology of Education 43: 355-76. (Reader)

Oakes, Jeannie, Adam Gamoran, and Reba N. Page. 1992. "Curriculum Differentiation: Opportunities, Consequences, and Meaning." Pp. 570-608 in Handbook of Research on Curriculum, Edited by Philip W. Jackson. New York: Macmillan. (Reader)

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)

Mobility Patterns: Wednesday, 5/9
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)

Hallinan, Marueen. 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)

Rosenbaum, James E. 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.

Classroom Tasks: Monday, 5/14 and Wednesday, 5/16
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)

Hallinan, Maureen T. 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)

McNeal, Ralph. 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.

Crowds:
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.

Brown, Bradford B. 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.

Social Relations and Status: (NO CLASS MONDAY, 5/28) Wednesday, 5/30

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.

Forms of Capital

Human and Social Capital:
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: Wednesday, 6/6
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 Univ. 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.

EDUCATION AND THE WORLD OF WORK - SYLLABUS
College of Education - The University of Iowa - Instructor: David Bills
Course Objectives:
This course focuses on the relationships between education and schooling and various aspects of the world of work. I interpret education and schooling broadly, to include formal secondary and post-secondary schooling, training, and learning that takes place out of school. We shall examine both conceptual and theoretical ways of thinking about schools and workplaces as well as several policy proposals for linking these institutions (e.g., school to work programs, job training, career academies, magnet schools, etc.).

Required Textbooks:

Bills, David B. 2004. The Sociology of Education and Work. London: Blackwell.

Crouch, Colin, David Finegold, and Mari Sako. 1998. Are Skills the Answer? Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Rosenbaum, James E. 2001. Beyond College For All: Career Paths for the Forgotten Half. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Grubb, W. Norton and Marvin Lazerson. 2004. The Education Gospel: The Economic Power of Schooling. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Other Recommended Books:

Buchmann, Marlis. 1989. The Script of Life in Modern Society: Entry into Adulthood in a Changing World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Czikszentmihalyi, Mihaly and Barbara Schneider. 2000. Becoming Adult: How Teenagers Prepare for the World of Work. New York: Basic Books.

Grubb, W. Norton (ed.). 1995. Education Through Occupations in American High Schools, Volume 1: Approaches to Integrating Academic and Vocational Education. New York: Teachers College Press.

Grubb, W. Norton (ed.). 1995. Education Through Occupations in American High Schools, Volume 2: The Challenge of Implementing Curriculum Integration. New York: Teachers College Press.

Smith, Vicki. 2001. Crossing the Great Divide: Worker Risk and Opportunity in the New Economy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 559 (September, 1998). Special Issue on "The Changing Educational Quality of the Workforce." edited by Robert Zemsky and Peter Cappelli.

Tilly, Chris and Charles Tilly. 1998. Work Under Capitalism. Boulder: Westview Press.

Introduction to the Course
Education and Work in the Post-Industrial Society
Bills, David B. 2004. The Sociology of Education and Work. London: Blackwell.

Thinking about the Relationships between Education and Work
Coleman, James S. 1988. "Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital." American Journal of Sociology 94: S95-S120.

Collins, Randall. 1971. "Functional and Conflict Theories of Educational Stratification." American Sociological Review 36:1002-1019.

Mincer, Jacob. 1989. "Human Capital and the Labor Market: A Review of Current Research." Educational Researcher 18 (4): 27-34.

Demographic Booms and Busts and the New Cultural Diversity
Kent, Mary M. and Mark Mather. 2002. "What Drives U.S. Population Growth?" Population Bulletin 57 (4).

High School Kids in the Workplace
Warren, John Robert, Paul C. LePore, and Robert D. Mare. 2000. “Employment During High School: Consequences for Students’ Grades in Academic Courses.” American Educational Research Journal 37: 943-969.

High School as a Preparation for Work: Vocational Education
Arum, Richard. 1998. "Invested Dollars or Diverted Dreams: The Effect of Resources on Vocational Students' Educational Outcomes." Sociology of Education 71: 130-151.

Arum, Richard and Yossi Shavit. 1995. "Secondary Vocational Education and the Transition from School to Work." Sociology of Education 68: 187-204.

Shavit, Yossi and Walter Muller. 2000. "Vocational Secondary Education: Where Diversion and Where Safety Net?" European Societies 2: 29-50.

Bishop, John H. and Ferran Mane. 2004. “The Impacts of Career-Technical Education on High School Labor Market Success.” Economics of Education Review 23: 381-402.

School as a Preparation for Work: School to Work
Rosenbaum, James E. 2001. Beyond College For All: Career Paths for the Forgotten Half. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

College as Preparation for Work
Clark, Burton. 1960. "The Cooling Out Function in Higher Education." American Journal of Sociology 65: 569-576.

Kerckhoff, Alan C. and Lorraine Bell. 1998. "Hidden Capital: Vocational Credentials and Attainment in the United States." Sociology of Education 71: 152-174.

Worker Training, Adult Education, and Lifelong Learning
Bishop, John. 1998. "Occupation-Specific Versus General Education and Training." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 559: 24-38.

National Center for Education Statistics. 2000. Lifelong Learning NCES Task Force: Final Report, Volume I. Washington, DC.

Looking for Solutions -- Part I
Crouch, Colin, Finegold, and Sako. 1998. Are Skills the Answer? Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Looking for Solutions -- Part II
Grubb, W. Norton and Marvin Lazerson. 2004. The Education Gospel: The Economic Power of Schooling. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON EDUCATION POLICY - EDLD 680 - University of Oregon

WEDNESDAYS, 2-5:50 P.M. Professor: Douglas Ready Office: 170M, College of Education 541.346.1366 dready@uoregon.edu PURPOSE OF THE COURSE This course focuses on educational equity. Theoretically, this means that we examine the role of schooling in reproducing and reinforcing prevailing social, political, and economic relationships. We also assess the potential contradictions between the societal functions of schooling and the professed goals of educators. The ideas and language which our society uses to define and to shape public responses to current educational problems are important objects of analysis in their own right. In general, the course pursues these themes by examining the sources of educational change, the organizational context of schooling, the impact of schooling on social stratification, social organization within the school and the classroom, the social impact of the formal curriculum, and methods of selection and differentiation in schools. Within this format, each class will give special attention to a contemporary social issue relevant to these considerations. A set of themes will run through the course, which students should keep in mind during their reading, writing, and discussion. These involve the ways in which schools – especially American public schools – carry out tasks which together comprise major goals of education. These themes are: • Socialization. How do and should schools socialize young people through training in the skills and attitudes expected of them by the larger adult society? • Custodial function. How do and should schools serve as custodians of partially socialized young persons who are not considered capable of productive labor or legal responsibility? • Stratification. What role do and should schools serve in allocating members of each new generation to strata (based on race, ethnicity, or social class) in adult society? • School change. What are the important themes underlying current reforms of U.S. schools? How do these reforms aim to change schools so that they will be better places for all students to learn?

REQUIRED COURSE MATERIALS Arum, R., & Beattie, I. R. (2000). The structure of schooling: Readings in the sociology of education. Boston: McGraw Hill. Bowles, S., & Gintis, H. (1976). Schooling in capitalist America: Educational reform and the contradictions of economic life. New York: Basic Books. Holland, D. C., & Eisenhart, M. A. (1990). Educated in romance: Women, achievement, and college culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. COURSE CALENDAR September 29: Introduction Arum, R., & Beattie, I. R. (2000). Introduction. In R. Arum & I. R. Beattie (Eds.), The structure of schooling: Readings in the sociology of education (pp. 1-11). New York: McGraw Hill. Labaree, D. F. (1997). Public goods, private goods: The American struggle over educational goals. American Educational Research Journal, 34(1), 39-81. Available on Blackboard. October 6: Social Class and Schooling: Macro Analyses Blau, P. M., & Duncan, O. D. (2000[1967]). The process of stratification. In R. Arum & I. R. Beattie (Eds.), The structure of schooling: Readings in the sociology of education (pp. 35-46). New York: McGraw Hill. Bowles, S., & Gintis, H. (1976). Schooling in capitalist America: Educational reform and the contradictions of economic life. New York: Basic Books. Chapters 1, 2, 4, 5, 9, and 10. Cohen, D. K., & Rosenberg, B. H. (1977, Summer). Functions and fantasies: Understanding schools in capitalist America. History of Education Quarterly, 113-137. Available on Blackboard. October 13: Social Class and Schooling: Micro Analyses Hollingshead, A. B. (1975[1949]). Elmtown’s youth and Elmtown revisited. New York: John Wiley & Sons. Chapters 4-6. Available on Blackboard. Lareau, A. (2000[1987]). Social class differences in family-school relationships: The importance of cultural capital. In R. Arum & I. R. Beattie (Eds.), The structure of schooling: Readings in the sociology of education (pp. 288-301). New York: McGraw Hill. Rist, R. C. (1970). Student social class and teacher expectations: The self-fulfilling prophesy in ghetto education. Harvard Educational Review, 40, 411-451. Available on Blackboard.
October 20: Race/Ethnicity and Schooling: Macro Analyses Massey, D. S., & Denton, N. A. American apartheid: Segregation and the making of the underclass. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Chapters 1 and 6. Available on Blackboard. Jencks, C., & Phillips, M. (2000). America’s next achievement test: Closing the Black- White test score gap. In R. Arum & I. R. Beattie (Eds.), The structure of schooling: Readings in the sociology of education (pp. 319-325). New York: McGraw Hill. Rothstein, R. (2004). Class and schools: Using social, economic, and educational reform to close the Black-White achievement gap. Washington, D. C.: Economic Policy Institute. Read Chapter 1. Available on Blackboard. October 27: Race/Ethnicity and Schooling: Micro Analyses Fordham, S., & Ogbu, J. (2000[1986]). Black students’ school success: Coping with the burden of “acting white.” In R. Arum & I. R. Beattie (Eds.), The structure of schooling: Readings in the sociology of education (pp. 303-309). New York: McGraw Hill. Lee, S. J. (1996). Unraveling the “model minority” stereotype: Listening to Asian American youth. New York: Teachers College Press. Chapters 1, 3, and 6. Available on Blackboard. CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING TWO READINGS: O’Connor, C. (1997). Dispositions toward (collective) struggle and educational resilience in the inner city: A case analysis of six African-American high school students. American Educational Research Journal, 34(4), 593-629. Available on Blackboard. Valenzuela, A, (1999). Subtractive schooling: U.S.-Mexican youth and the politics of caring. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. Read Chapter 1. Available on Blackboard. November 3: Gender and Schooling Holland, D. C., & Eisenhart, M. A. (1990). Educated in romance: Women, achievement, and college culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Mickelson, R. A. (2000). Why does Jane read and write so well? The anomaly of women’s achievement. In R. Arum & I. R. Beattie (Eds.), The structure of schooling: Readings in the sociology of education (pp. 326-338). New York: McGraw Hill.
November 10: Tracking and Curricular Differentiation Lee, V. E. (1993). Educational choice: The stratifying effects of selecting schools and courses. Educational Policy, 7(2), 125-148. Available on Blackboard. Oakes, J. (2000[1985]). The distribution of knowledge. In R. Arum & I. R. Beattie (Eds.), The structure of schooling: Readings in the sociology of education (pp. 224-234). New York: McGraw Hill. Rosenbaum, J. E. (1976) Making inequality: The hidden curriculum of high school tracking. New York: John Wiley & Sons. Chapters 1,4, and 7. Available on Blackboard.. Yonezawa, S., Wells, A. S., & Sevna, I. (2002). “Choosing tracks: ‘Freedom of choice’ in detracking schools.” American Education Research Journal, 39 (1), 37-67. Available on Blackboard. November 17: School Choice Goldhaber, D. D. (1999). School choice: An examination of the empirical evidence on achievement, parental decision making, and equity. Educational Researcher, 28(9), 16-25. Available on Blackboard. Guttman, A. (Summer, 2000). What does ‘school choice’ mean? Dissent. Available on Blackboard. Wells, A. S., & Crain, R. L. (1992). Do parents choose school quality or school status? A sociological theory of free market education. In Peter W. Cookson (Ed.), The choice controversy (pp. 65-82). Newbury Park, CA: Corwin Press. Available on Blackboard. Witte, J. F. (2001). The Milwaukee voucher experiment. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 20(4), 229-251. Available on Blackboard. November 24: NO CLASS December 1: The Big Picture Bowles, S., & Gintis, H. (1976). Schooling in capitalist America: Educational reform and the contradictions of economic life. New York: Basic Books. Chapter 11. Jencks, C. (1988). Whom must we treat equally for educational opportunity to be equal? Ethics, 98(3), 518-533. Available on Blackboard. Rosenbaum, J.E., & Binder, A. (2000[1997]). Do employers really need more educated youth? In R. Arum & I.R. Beattie (Eds.), The structure of schooling: Readings in the sociology of education (pp. 406-417). New York: McGraw Hill.
Traub, J. (2000, January 16). What no school can do. New York Times Mag, p. 52.

Sociology of Education - Instructor: John Modell - brown.edu

Education/Sociology 104 - john_modell@brown.edu
The Object of Study
A course in the sociology of education might be many things, for education is
one of the most pervasive aspects of modern society, and sociology is a discipline with
highly varied ways of looking at the phenomenon upon which it focuses. This course
doesn’t try to survey everything that sociology might have to say about formal
education, or even about formal education—systematic, designed efforts to establish
institutions within which discrete bodies of knowledge and practice are taught.
The first section of the course asks “What Is Formal Education?” That is, it
problematizes formal education itself: I believe that it is important to remember that
most societies in the history of our species have not had institutions of formal
education, and to ask why we do, and why, indeed, all contemporary nation-states do.
The second section of the course asks about the auspices of such organized,
institutionalized efforts to teach, paying attention to the fact of conflict over who is
going to offer instiruction, about what, and how?
The course’s third section looks at education from the perspective of the
organization of the teaching institution. A school in a particular kind of organization
that brings together learners, instructors, and the materials of learning, and these
elements can be and are put together in many different ways. A system of education
articulates schools to one another, creating in the process characteristic student
careers. This, too, can be done and is done in many different ways.
The final section of the course addresses the differential experiences of schooling
of different “kinds” of children with different organizations of schools and of education
systems. Sociology is preeminently the discipline that seeks to understand why people
and the institutions that direct much of their lives seem to be of different “kinds,” and
the implications of this fact.
Course Pedagogy
The pedagogy of this course is rather straightforward. Sociology of education is
a field with a very fine literature, and I have sought to assign you a healthy variety of
this. What I have assigned is tough reading, for the most part, both because most of it
is quite analytic, and in addition because some of it is quantitative. I have resisted all
temptation to assign a ton of reading and settled instead for a quantity that I think I
can expect each of you to have wrestled with, for each class.
That wrestling on your part is essential, because my goal is to open new
perspectives to you, and what transforms “information” into “a perspective” that opens
up new ways of thinking is wrestling with what you encounter. I want, for every
reading, that you work to understand not just what the author is saying but why.
What received wisdom is she or he trying to challenge? What other competing ideas
might there be out there? And on the basis of what evidence? I hope that you will
enhance for yourself the value of what you read through the paired (and perhaps
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literally somewhat opposed) habits of mind of skepticism (“ought I really believe that?”)
and of suspended disbelief (“what if it were true?”) For the class the idea is to foster
intense, searching class discussion. A great deal of what I think goes on by way of
learning in classes like Ed/So 104 happens in class discussion, when one’s new ideas,
guesses, hunches, ideological convictions, and moral persuasions rub unexpectedly up
against others’. I take this quite seriously, try to assist the process through my
questioning in class, and want you to have challenged each reading so that you, in
turn, can be challenged by others in the class. As you will see, my evaluation of your
classroom participation constitutes the largest single part of your grade.
Regular attendance is mandatory in the course. If you must miss a session,
please let me know why, in advance if at all possible. The writing assignments, too,
must be completed in a timely way.
I have assigned you to write six 1-to-2-page “article reviews” to help you to
wrestle with complex social science writing and to reflect upon what you have read. In
addition, as you finish the two books that we read, I want you to write three or four
pages evaluating each.
You will also be writing a brief thematic paper that asks you to make a critical
synthesis of materials that we have read, more or less recently, in the course.
Readings
I ask you to purchase two paperback books, available in the Brown Bookstore:
?? Martin Packer, Changing Classes: School Reform and the New Economy.
?? Dan Lortie, Schoolteacher: a Sociological Study.

Schedule of Classes
I. What Is Formal Education?
Tue 3-Sep Introductory class
Th 5-Sep Alex Inkeles, “Making Men Modern: on the Causes and Consequences of Individual
Change in Six Developing Countries,” American Journal of Sociology 75 (1969): 208-
226. (JSTOR). Note here the classic "modernization" framework of this article.
Tue 10-Sep Article
review due.
K.D. M. Snell, “The Apprenticeship System in British History: the Fragmentation of a
Cultural Institution,” History of Education 25 (1996): 303-321. (Brown Electronic
Journals)
Th 12-Sep Carter Jefferson, “Worker Education in England and France, 1800-1914, Comparative
Studies in Society and History 6 (1964): 345-366. (JSTOR)
Tue 17-Sep Article
review due.
Dale F. Eickelman, “The Art of Memory: Islamic Education and Its Social
Reproduction,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 20 (1978): 485-516.
(JSTOR)
Th 19-Sep John W. Meyer, “The Effects of Education as an Institution,” American Journal of
Sociology 83 (1977): 55-77. (JSTOR)
Tue 24-Sep Article
review due.
Hugh Mehan, “Language and Schooling,” Sociology of Education 57 (1984): 174-183.
(JSTOR)
II. The Auspices of Formal Education
Th 26-Sep Francisco O. Ramirez and John W. Meyer, “Comparative Education: the Social
Construction of the Modern World System,” Annual Review of Sociology 6 (1980): 369-
399. (JSTOR)
Tue 1-Oct Claudia Goldin, "Human Capital Century and America's Leadership: Virtues of the Past,"
NBER Working Paper No. 8239. (www.nber.org/papers/w8239).
Th 3-Oct Bruce Fuller et al, “National Building and School Expansion under the Fragile French
State,” Social Forces 70 (1992): 923-936. (JSTOR)
Tue 8-Oct Paper #1
due.
Donald Hirsch, “What Works in Innovation in Education? School; a Choice of Directions”
(CERI Working Paper, OECD, 2002):
http://www.oecd.org/pdf/M00030000/M00030140.pdf
Th 10-Oct Martin Packer, Changing Classes: School Reform and the New Economy chapters 1,
3, 5.
Tue 15-Oct Packer, Changing Classes, chs. 7, 8, 9.
Th 17-Oct Book
evaluation due.
Packer, Changing Classes, chs. 10, 11, 13.
III. The Organization of Formal Education
Tue 22-Oct Article
review due.
Ralph Turner, "Sponsored and Contest Mobility and the Social System," American
Sociological Review 25 (1960): 855-867 (JSTOR)
Th 24-Oct James E. Rosenbaum, “The Stratification of Socialization Processes,” American
Sociological Review 40 (1975): 48-54. (JSTOR)
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Tue 29-Oct Keith Sharpe, “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Catholicism: Ideological and
Institutional Constraints on System Change in English and French Primary Schooling,”
Comparative Education 33 (1997): 329-348. (Brown Electronic Journals)
Th 31-Oct Dan Lortie, Schoolteacher: a Sociological Study, chapters1, 3, and 4.
Tue 5-Nov Book
evaluation due.
Dan Lortie, Schoolteacher: a Sociological Study, chapters 6, 7, and 8.
Th 7-Nov Teachers Today: collection of tables drawn from the Schools and Staffing Survey,
1993-94.
Tue 12-Nov Susan J. Rosenholtz and Stephen H. Rosenholtz, “Classroom Organization and the
Perception of Ability,” Sociology of Education 54 (1981): 132-140. (JSTOR)
IV. Differential Outcomes of Formal Education
Th 14-Nov Article
review due.
School Performance, Status Relations, and the Structure of Sentiment: Bringing the
Teacher Back In, Karl L. Alexander, Doris R. Entwisle, Maxine S. Thompson American
Sociological Review, Vol. 52, No. 5. (Oct., 1987), pp. 665-682. (JSTOR)
Tue 19-Nov Aaron M. Pallas, et al, “Ability Group Effects: Instructional, Social, or Institutional,”
Sociology of Education 67 (1994): 27-46. (JSTOR)
Th 21-Nov Article
review due.
Doris R. Entwisle and Karl L. Alexander, "Summer Setback: Race, Poverty, School
Composition, and Mathematics Achievement in the First Two Years of School,"
American Sociological Review 57 (1992): 72-84. (JSTOR)
Tue 26-Nov Sophia Catasmbis, “Expanding Knowledge of Parental Involvement in Children’s
Secondary Education: Correlations with High School Seniors’ Academic Success,”
Social Psychology of Education 5 (2001): 149-177. (Brown Electronic Journals)
Th 28-Nov Thanksgiving Holiday
Tu 3-Dec Karl L. Alexander and Doris R. Entwisle, “The Dropout Process in Life-Course
Perspective: Early Risk Factors at Home and School,” Teachers College Record 103
(2001): 760-822 (Brown Electronic Journals)
Th 5-Dec Education and Inequality: I will distribute a set of tables indicating the degree to which
succeeding generations reproduce the distribution of educational statuses of their
parents, and this will focus our discussion.
Tu 10-Dec Review and retrospect. This session, during reading week, is optional.

Sociology of Education - Soc 345
Professor Cati Coe - Rutgers University
email: ccoe@camden.rutgers.edu

Teaching Assistant: Melissa Saler
email: melsaler@camden.rutgers.edu

Course Description
Education is the way that a society’s social structure, ways of being in the world, and knowledge is transmitted, contested, and transformed. Schooling is a particular institutional form for educating young people, a form that has spread throughout the world, with different meanings and trajectories. In this course, we will examine the social aspects of education and schooling in both America and elsewhere: the interaction between home, society, and educational institutions; the ways that identities are formed through education; and the reproduction of social inequalities within schools as well as resistance to them. Schools both exist within a larger society and are their own social world, with the formation of peer groups, particular power dynamics, and ways of transmitting relationships and knowledge. We will pay particular attention to the way that small interactions within educational settings have much larger implications within society.

Course Schedule
Week 1
9/2 Course overview and requirements
Week 2
Socialization and Cultural Transmission
9/7 1) Robert Redfield, “Culture and Education in the Midwestern Highlands of Guatemala,” The Social Uses of Social Science (1963), pp. 12-23
2) Margaret Mead, Coming of Age in Samoa (1928), Chapters 3, pp. 20-38
American Samoa map

The Characteristics of Mass Education
9/9 Link through JSTOR: Francisco O. Ramirez and John Boli, "The Political Construction of Mass Schooling: European Origins and Worldwide Insitutionalization," Sociology of Education 60:1 (1987): 2-17
Film excerpt: "High School" by Frederick Wiseman (1971)
Group presentation assignment given

Week 3
The Interaction between Society and Classroom in Different Cultural Settings
9/14 Shirley Brice Heath, “Questioning at Home and School: A Comparative Study,” Doing the Ethnography of Schooling (1982), pp. 102-131

9/16 Susan U. Philips, “Participant Structures and Communicative Competence: Warm Springs Children in Community and Classroom,” Functions of Language in the Classroom (1972), pp. 370-392
Assignment for first paper given

Week 4
Race
9/21 Lisa Delpit, “The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People’s Children,” Other People’s Children (1996), pp. 21-47

9/23 Signithia Fordham and John U. Ogbu, “Black Students’ School Success: Coping with the Burden of ‘Acting White,’” Urban Review (1986), pp. 176-202

Week 5
Schools and Social Mobility
9/28 Steven Brint, “Schools and Social Selection: Opportunity,” Schools and Societies (1998) pp.171-203
Model of the Class Structure

9/30 Annette Lareau, "Why Does Social Class Influence Parent Involvement in Schooling," Home Advantage: Social Class and Parental Intervention in Elementary Education (2000), pp. 97-148
Due: First Paper

Week 6
10/5 Peter W. Cookson, Jr and Caroline Hodges Persell, Preparing for Power: America's Elite Boarding Schools (1985), pp. 49-69, 73-85

10/7 Kathleen Wilcox, "Differential Socialization in the Classrooms: Implications for Equal Opportunity," Doing the Ethnography of Schooling (1982), pp. 269-305

Week 7
10/12 Bruce Jackson, “Interviewing,” Fieldwork (1987), pp. 79-102, 259, 278-279
Assignment for second paper given

10/14 Jay MacLeod, Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood (1995), pp. 3-49
Three Theories of How Social Reproduction Happens

Week 8
10/19 Jay MacLeod, Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood (1995), pp. 50-111

10/21 Jay MacLeod, Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood (1995), pp. 112-151

Week 9
10/26 Jay MacLeod, Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood (1995), pp. 196-238
Social Reproduction & the Brothers

Structural Issues: School Funding and Neighborhood Segregation
10/28 1) Jonathan Kozol, “Children of the City Invincible: Camden, New Jersey,” Savage Inequalities (1991), pp. 133-174
Link to: 2)
3) Education Week on the Web, School Finance
Report by Kevin Carey for the Education Trust (Fall 2003), The Funding Gap: Low-Income and Minority Students Receive Fewer Dollars
Powerpoint Presentation on School Funding

Week 10
11/2 Gary Orfield, “The Growth of Segregation: African-Americans, Latinos, and Unequal Education,” Dismantling Desegregation (1996), pp. 53-71
Housing and School Segregation Powerpoint Presentation

Labeling and Sorting Students
11/4 1) Adam Gamoran, “Is Ability Grouping Equitable?” Educational Leadership (1992), pp. 11-17
2) John O’Neil, “On Tracking and Individual Differences: A Conversation with Jeannie Oakes,” Educational Leadership (1992), pp. 18-22
3) Ray McDermott and Herve Varenne, "Adam, Adam, Adam, and Adam: The Cultural Construction of a Learning Disability," Successful Failure (1998), pp. 25-44
High-Track Students' Experiences in School
Low-Track Students' Experiences of School
High-Track Teachers' Expectations
Low-Track Teachers' Expectations
Conclusions
Pillsbury quote
Terman Quote #1
Terman Quote #2
Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Learning Disability Definition (1993)
McDermott quote

Week 11
11/9 Michelle Fine, Framing Dropouts (1991), 63-83, 161-175
Small Group Work on Dangerous Conversations
Teachers' Beliefs at CHS
Due: Second Paper

Schools as a Social Organization: Authority and Identity
11/11 Douglas E. Foley, Learning Capitalist Culture (1996), pp. 1-62

Week 12
11/16 Douglas E. Foley, Learning Capitalist Culture (1996), pp. 63-100

11/18 Douglas E. Foley, Learning Capitalist Culture (1996), pp. 101-158
On the educational exchange

Week 13
11/23 Linda McNeil, Contradictions of Control (1986), pp. 157-190

11/25 Thanksgiving

Gender
Week 14
11/30 1) Myra Sadker and David Sadker, “Missing in Interaction,” Failing at Fairness (1994), pp. 42-65
2) Peggy Orenstein, "Striking Back: Sexual Harassment at Weston," Jossey-Bass Reader on Gender in Education (2002), pp. 459-475.
Harassment Laws
Sexual harassment

Recent Developments: Privatization, Charter Schools, and Standardized Testing
12/2 The Market Metaphor in Education
1) Link to: Willis D. Hawley, "The False Premises and False Promises of the Movement to Privatize Public Education," Teachers College Record (1995) 96:4
2) Jeffrey Henig, "The Danger of Market Rhetoric," Selling Out Our Schools: Vouchers, Markets, and Public Education (1996), pp 9-11.
Vouchers Powerpoint

Week 15
12/7 Charter Schools
1) Link to: History of the Charter School Movement by the League of Women Voters, DC (2000)
2) Link to: New Jersey Charter School Act (1995; amended 2000)
3) "Charter Schools: Potentials and Pitfalls: An Interview with Ann Bastian," Selling Out Our Schools: Vouchers, Markets, and Public Education (1996), pp. 45-49.
4) Tamara Prevost and Margarita Jimenez-Silva, "Jingletown: One Charter School's Story," Selling Out Our Schools: Vouchers, Markets, and Public Education (1996), pp. 52-53.
Charter Schools Slide Show

12/9 Standardized Testing
Link to: Richard F. Elmore, "Unwarranted Intrusion," Education Next, Spring 2002