TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ballantine,Jeanne H.
AU  - Hammack,Floyd M.
TI  - The sociology of education: a systematic analysis 
SN  - 9780131958944 (alk. paper)
U1  - 306.43 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Upper Saddle River, N.J.
PB  - Pearson Prentice Hall
KW  - Educational sociology
N1  - Contents;

CHAPTER 1: Sociology of Education: A Unique Perspective on Schools
The Field of Sociology of Education 2
Theoretical Approaches and the Development of Sociology of Education 6
The Open Systems Approach 16
Research Methods in Sociology of Education 21
Sociology of Education in the Twenty-First Century 22
Organization of the Book 23

CHAPTER 2: Conflicting Functions and Processes in Education: 
What Makes the System Work
The Function of Cultural Transmission and Process of Passing On Culture 36
The Function of Social Control and Personal Development 47
The Function of Selection and Allocation: The Sorting Process 51
		
CHAPTER 3: Education and the Process of Stratification	60
The Crisis in Schooling 60	
The Process of Stratification: Is Inequality Inevitable? 63	
Stratification and Equality of Educational Opportunity 72
		
CHAPTER 4: Race, Class, and Gender: Attempts to Achieve Equality of Educational Opportunity	89
Gender and Equality of Educational Opportunity 90	
Class, Race, and Attempts to Rectify Inequalities in Educational Opportunity Integration Attempts 111
Educational Experience of Selected Minorities in the United States 116	
Improving Schools for Minority Students 126
	
CHAPTER 5: The School as an Organization	131
Social System of the School 132
Goals of the School System 134	
School Functions: The Purposes of the School 137	
The School as an Organization 139
Centralized versus Decentralized Decision Making: The Fight over Control of Schools 149
		
CHAPTER 6: Formal School Statuses and Roles: ¿The Way It Spozed to Be¿ 157
The Meaning of Roles 157	
Roles in Schools 160
		
CHAPTER 7: Students: The Core of the School	186
Student Characteristics 186	
School Failures and Dropouts 192	
Students and the Informal System 205	
Students and Their Environments 213
				
CHAPTER 8: The Informal System and the : Hidden Curriculum: 
What Really Happens in School?	223
The Open Systems Approach and the Informal System 224
The Educational ¿Climate¿ and School Effectiveness 227
		

CHAPTER 9: The Educational System and the Environment: 
A Symbiotic Relationship	246
The School Systems Environments: Interdependence Between Institutions 250
		
CHAPTER 10: The System of Higher Education	267
History and Development of Higher Education 268		
Theoretical Approaches to Higher Education 272	
Characteristics of Higher Education in the United States 278	
Functions of the Higher Education System 280		
Higher Education as an Organization 286
Roles in Higher Education 290	
Environmental Pressures on Higher Education 305	
Outcomes of Higher Education 312
		
CHAPTER 11: Educational Systems Around the World: A Comparative View	319
The Field of Comparative Education			
Theoretical Perspectives in Comparative Education 330
Global Institutional Interdependence 339
		
CHAPTER 12: Educational Systems Around the World: Case Studies	353
Education in Britain 354		
Education in the People’s Republic of China 360	
Formal Education in Colonial Africa 365
		
CHAPTER 13: Educational Movements and Reform	373
The Nature of Educational Movements 375
Early Educational Movements 377
Alternative Education and Related Movements 381	
Structural and Curricular Changes in the Schools 389
		
; Includes bibliographical references and index
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