Education in a new society : renewing the sociology of education / edited by Jal Mehta and Scott Davies.

In recent decades, sociology of education has been dominated by quantitative analyses of race, class, and gender gaps in educational achievement. And while there's no question that such work is important, it leaves a lot of other fruitful areas of inquiry unstudied. This book takes that problem seri...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Mehta, Jal (Editor)
Davies, Scott, 1962- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
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Physical Description:ix, 425 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Foreword: A much-needed project / Michele Lamont
  • Education in a new society: renewing the sociology of education / Jal Mehta and Scott Davies
  • Theoretical perspectives. Social theory and the coming schooled society / David P. Baker
  • The deepening interpenetration of education in modern life / Scott Davies and Jal Mehta
  • An institutional geography of knowledge exchange: producers, exports, imports, trade routes, and metacognitive metropoles / Steven Brint
  • Professional education in the university context: toward an inhabited institutional view of socialization / Tim Hallett and Matt Gougherty
  • Substantive contributions. Talking pigs? lessons from elite schooling / Shamus Khan
  • What's up with assessment? / Richard Arum and Amanda Cook
  • College and university campuses as sites for political formation: a cultural-organizational approach / Amy Binder
  • Digital badges and higher education in a new society: a Bersteinian analysis / Michael Olneck
  • Research universities and the global battle for the brains / John D. Skrentny and Natalie M. Novick
  • Old themes, new perspectives. The expansion of the "school form" and deepening inequality / David Karen
  • Reopening the black box of educational disadvantage: why we need new answers to old questions / Janice Aurini and Cathlene Hillier
  • Schools as great distractors: why socioeconomic-based achievement gaps persist / Douglas B. Downey
  • Race and white supremacy in the sociology of education: shifting the Intellectual gaze / John B. Diamond
  • Race, ethnicity, and cultural processes in education: new approaches for new times / Natasha Kumar Warikoo
  • Claim no easy victories: some notes toward a fearless sociology of education / Charles M. Payne
  • Epilogue : What next for the sociology of education? / Mitchell Stevens.