Research in the Sociology of Education and Socialization Vol: 10
Product Details
- Format:
- Hardback
- ISBN:
- 9781559382830
- Published:
- 01 Nov 1994
- Publisher:
- Emerald Group Publishing Limited
- Dimensions:
- 300 pages - 156 x 230 x 16mm
- Series:
- Research in Sociology of Education and Socialization
Categories:
This volume covers such topics as the sociology of education, theoretical diversity in the analysis of gender and education, the influence of subject areas on middle school tracking policies, and unifying and differentiating processes in schools and classrooms.
The sociology of education - its developments in the United States, Robert Dreeben; in comparative isolation - why comparative research has so little influence on American sociology of education, David P. Baker; theoretical diversity in the analysis of gender and education, Linda Grant et al; coming together and breaking apart - unifying and differentiating processes in schools and classrooms, Gary Natriello; the influence of subject areas on middle school tracking policies, Tom Loveless; single-gender schools - outcomes for African and Hispanic Americans, Cornelius Riordann; fear of falling from grace - the middle class, downward mobility and school desegregation, Roslyn Arlin Mickelson and Carol Axtell Ray; thinking about an occupation - a new developmental and contextual perspective, Barbara Schneider.