Sociology And The School

Author : Peter Woods
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136465024

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Sociology and the School (RLE Edu L) by Peter Woods Pdf

This is an introduction to interactionist work in education during the 1970s and 80s. The interactionist viewpoint concentrates on how people construct meanings in the ebb and flow of everyday life – what they think and do, how they react to one another – and has in recent years established itself as one of the leading approaches in education. It has generated illuminating research studies which, by being firmly based in the real world of teaching and dealing with the fine-grained details of school life, have helped to break down the barriers between teacher and researcher. This volume presents the results of this valuable work, within a coherent theoretical framework, by focusing on the major interactionist concepts of situation, perspectives, cultures, strategies, negotiation and careers. By bringing them together in this way, the author demonstrates their collective potential for the deeper understanding of school life and the possibilities for sociological theory. His book therefore offers both a summary of and a reflection on achievement in the area of interactionism as it relates to schools.

Author : Ronald King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351808613

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The Sociology of School Organization by Ronald King Pdf

First published in 1983, this volume assembles recent theory on school organization, drawing on a wide range of research, mainly on schools in contemporary Britain but with some illuminating historical and overseas comparisons. It examines elements of organization both within and outside the school, and shows how they vary with the age, sex, ethnicity and social class of pupils, as well as school size and efficiency. It argues how, with understanding, organizational patterns may be changed to respond to new objectives and how they may become more effective and responsive to human needs in schools and classrooms.

Author : Martyn Hammersley,Peter Woods
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000734805

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Life in School by Martyn Hammersley,Peter Woods Pdf

There can be little doubt that pupils’ own interpretations of what happens in their schools represent a crucial link in the educational chain. We need to understand how pupils respond to different forms of pedagogy and school organization, and why they respond in the ways they do, in order to increase the effectiveness of our schooling. In the ten years prior to first publication ethnographic studies of pupils in schools had increased in number and importance. They had come to represent a leading area of inquiry which is still of relevance to practising and student teachers today. However, this material was not easily accessible, being widely distributed across educational and sociological journals and books. Originally published in 1984, this book collects together significant contributions to the field in a single volume, and will still be of relevance to practising and trainee teachers, and students of sociology and education.

Author : Jeanne H. Ballantine,Joan Z. Spade,Jenny M. Stuber
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781544302386

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Schools and Society by Jeanne H. Ballantine,Joan Z. Spade,Jenny M. Stuber Pdf

This comprehensive anthology features classical readings on the Sociology of Education, as well as current, original essays by notable contemporary scholars. Assigned as a main text or a supplement, this fully updated Sixth Edition uses the open systems approach to provide readers with a framework for understanding and analyzing the book’s range of topics. Jeanne H. Ballantine, Joan Z. Spade, and new co-editor Jenny M. Stuber, all experienced instructors in this subject, have chosen articles that are highly readable, and that represent the field’s major theoretical perspectives, methods, and issues. The Sixth Edition includes twenty new selections and five revisions of original readings and features new perspectives on some of the most contested issues in the field today, such as school funding, gender issues in schools, parent and neighborhood influences on learning, growing inequality in schools, and charter schools.

Author : Karen Robson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-14
Category : Educational sociology
ISBN : 0132604655

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Sociology of Education in Canada by Karen Robson Pdf

Sociology of Education in Canada utilizes a contemporary theoretical focus to analyze how education in Canada is affected by pre-existing and persistent inequalities among members of society. It presents the historical and cultural factors that have shaped our current education system, examines the larger social trends that have contributed to present problems, discusses the various interest groups involved, and analyzes the larger social discourses that influence any discussion of these issues. To achieve this, Karen Robson uses many current, topical, and relatable issues in Canadian education to ensure that readers fully comprehend the information being presented and leave with an appreciation of how the sociology of education is inextricably linked to issues of stratification.

Author : Nils Christie
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780262358484

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If Schools Didn't Exist by Nils Christie Pdf

A classic in the philosophy of education, considering the fundamental purpose and function of schools, translated into English for the first time. This classic 1971 work on the fundamental purpose and function of schools belongs on the same shelf as other landmark works of the era, including Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society, Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, and John Holt's How Children Fail. Nils Christie's If School Didn't Exist, translated into English for the first time, departs from these works by not considering schooling (and deschooling) as much as schools and their specific community and social contexts. Christie argues that schools should be proving grounds for how to live together in society rather than assembly lines producing future citizens and employees.

Author : Robert G. Burgess
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015010614330

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Sociology, Education, and Schools by Robert G. Burgess Pdf

Author : Maureen T. Hallinan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780387364247

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Handbook of the Sociology of Education by Maureen T. Hallinan Pdf

This wide-ranging handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the field of education as viewed from a sociological perspective. Experts in the area present theoretical and empirical research on major educational issues and analyze the social processes that govern schooling, and the role of schools in and their impact on contemporary society. A major reference work for social scientists who want an overview of the field, graduate students, and educators.

Author : Tom Whiteside
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000628326

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The Sociology of Educational Innovation by Tom Whiteside Pdf

Innovation is a striking and polemical feature of contemporary schooling. The 1960s saw an upsurge of interest in progressive educational theories and debate and the benefits and disadvantages of their practical application, which continued after. But what was the reality behind the words? How far had teachers actually supported or adopted innov

Author : Peter Woods
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0415615178

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Sociology and the School by Peter Woods Pdf

Author : Earl Wright II
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317031741

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The First American School of Sociology by Earl Wright II Pdf

This book offers an original and rounded examination of the origin and sociological contributions of one of the most significant, yet continuously ignored, programs of social science research ever established in the United States: the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory. Under the leadership of W.E.B. Du Bois, this unit at Atlanta University made extensive contributions to the discipline which, as the author demonstrates, extend beyond 'race studies' to include founding the first American school of sociology, establishing the first program of urban sociological research, conducting the first sociological study on religion in the United States, and developing methodological advances that remain in use today. However, all of these accomplishments have subsequently been attributed, erroneously, to White sociologists at predominately White institutions, while the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory remains sociologically ignored and marginalized. Placing the achievements of the Du Bois led Atlanta Sociological Laboratory in context, the author contends that American Jim Crow racism and segregation caused the school to become marginalized and ignored instead of becoming recognized as one the most significant early departments of sociology in the United States. Illuminating the sociological activities - and marginalization - of a group of African American scholars from a small African American institution of higher learning in the Deep South - whose works deserve to be canonized alongside those of their late nineteenth and early twentieth century peers - this book will appeal to all scholars with interests in the history of sociology and its development as a discipline, race and ethnicity, research methodology, the sociology of the south, and urban sociology.

Author : Thurston Domina,Benjamin G. Gibbs,Lisa Nunn,Andrew Penner
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520295582

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Education and Society by Thurston Domina,Benjamin G. Gibbs,Lisa Nunn,Andrew Penner Pdf

Drawing on current scholarship, Education and Society takes students on a journey through the many roles that education plays in contemporary societies. Addressing students’ own experience of education before expanding to larger sociological conversations, Education and Society helps readers understand and engage with such topics as peer groups, gender and identity, social class, the racialization of achievement, the treatment of immigrant children, special education, school choice, accountability, discipline, global perspectives, and schooling as a social institution. The book prompts students to evaluate how schools organize our society and how society organizes our schools. Moving from students to schooling to social forces, Education and Society provides a lively and engaging introduction to theory and research and will serve as a cornerstone for courses such as sociology of education, foundations of education, critical issues in education, and school and society.

Author : Martin Bulmer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1986-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226080055

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The Chicago School of Sociology by Martin Bulmer Pdf

From 1915 to 1935 the inventive community of social scientists at the University of Chicago pioneered empirical research and a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, shaping the future of twentieth-century American sociology and related fields as well. Martin Bulmer's history of the Chicago school of sociology describes the university's role in creating research-based and publication-oriented graduate schools of social science. "This is an important piece of work on the history of sociology, but it is more than merely historical: Martin Bulmer's undertaking is also to explain why historical events occurred as they did, using potentially general theoretical ideas. He has studied what he sees as the period, from 1915 to 1935, when the 'Chicago School' most flourished, and defines the nature of its achievements and what made them possible . . . It is likely to become the indispensible historical source for its topic."—Jennifer Platt, Sociology

Author : Peter Woods
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415505888

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Pupil Strategies by Peter Woods Pdf

What do pupils actually do in school? There are remarkably few studies that take the pupils' perspective and reconstruct experience from their point of view within the context of their own cultures and careers. This volume brings together a number of research studies on various aspects of how pupils cope with schools. The theoretical papers consider amongst other issues a developmental model of the growth of pupil strategies based on primary and secondary socialisation; a discussion of 'interactionist empiricism' which argues for co-ordinated research between micro and macro perspectives and an extended overview of the general sociological background of work on teacher and pupil strategies. The empirical articles consider a number of themes ranging from strategies employed in answering teacher questions to the power and influence of the pupil peer group in the development of attitudes and behaviour.

Author : Richard Arum,Irenee R. Beattie,Karly Ford
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452205427

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The Structure of Schooling by Richard Arum,Irenee R. Beattie,Karly Ford Pdf

This comprehensive reader in the sociology of education examines important topics and exposes students to examples of sociological research on schools. Drawing from classic and contemporary scholarship, the editors have chosen readings that examine current issues and reflect diverse theoretical approaches to studying the effects of schooling on individuals and society.