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Handbook of the Sociology of Education in the 21st Century

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  • © 2018

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Editors:
  1. Barbara Schneider

    1. College of Education, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

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  • Provides holistic coverage of the role of the family in their children’s education from pre-school through postsecondary education
  • Pays attention to the changes in the organization of schooling including variations in types of schools and their links and consequences on various student outcomes
  • Provides comprehensive and deeper focus on the changing landscape of higher education institutions and their respective populations

Part of the book series: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research (HSSR)

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxvii
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  2. Families, Schools, and Educational Opportunity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Family, Schooling, and Cultural Capital

      • George Farkas
      Pages 3-38

    3. Power, Relationships, and Trust in Sociological Research on Homes, Schools, and Communities

      • Erin McNamara Horvat, Karen Pezzetti
      Pages 39-53

    4. Schools and Inequality: Implications from Seasonal Comparison Research

      • Douglas B. Downey, Aimee Yoon, Elizabeth Martin
      Pages 55-70

  3. The Changing Demographics of Social Inequality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
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    2. Race, Class, and Theories of Inequality in the Sociology of Education

      • Samuel R. Lucas, Véronique Irwin
      Pages 73-107

    3. Educational Achievement and Attainment Differences Among Minorities and Immigrants

      • Phoebe Ho, Grace Kao
      Pages 109-129

    4. Gender and Racial/Ethnic Differences in Educational Outcomes: Examining Patterns, Explanations, and New Directions for Research

      • Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Sarah Blanchard Kyte, Karisma Morton
      Pages 131-152

    5. Undocumented Youth and Local Contours of Inequality

      • Roberto G. Gonzales, Edelina M. Burciaga
      Pages 153-169

    6. Sociological Perspectives on First-Generation College Students

      • Irenee R. Beattie
      Pages 171-191

    7. School Experiences and Educational Opportunities for LGBTQ Students

      • Jennifer Pearson, Lindsey Wilkinson
      Pages 193-218

  4. The Social Organization of Schooling and Opportunities for Learning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219
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    2. School Choice and Learning Opportunities

      • Megan Austin, Mark Berends
      Pages 221-250

    3. Curricular Differentiation and Its Impact on Different Status Groups Including Immigrants and Students with Disabilities

      • Jamie M. Carroll, Chandra Muller
      Pages 251-273

    4. Teaching Quality

      • Sean Kelly, Ben Pogodzinski, Yuan Zhang
      Pages 275-296

    5. Social Networks and Educational Opportunity

      • Kenneth Frank, Yun-jia Lo, Kaitlin Torphy, Jihyun Kim
      Pages 297-316

    6. The Social Contexts of High Schools

      • Robert Crosnoe, Lilla Pivnick, Aprile D. Benner
      Pages 317-335

    7. Work Intensity and Academic Success

      • Jeremy Staff, Jeylan T. Mortimer, Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson
      Pages 337-358

  5. Educational Opportunities and the Transition into Adulthood

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 359-359
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About this book

This handbook unifies access and opportunity, two key concepts of sociology of education, throughout its 25 chapters. It explores today’s populations rarely noticed, such as undocumented students, first generation college students, and LGBTQs; and emphasizing the intersectionality of gender, race, ethnicity and social class. Sociologists often center their work on the sources and consequences of inequality. This handbook, while reviewing many of these explanations, takes a different approach, concentrating instead on what needs to be accomplished to reduce inequality. A special section is devoted to new methodological work for studying social systems, including network analyses and school and teacher effects. Additionally, the book explores the changing landscape of higher education institutions, their respective populations, and how labor market opportunities are enhanced or impeded by differing postsecondary education pathways. Written by leading sociologists and rising stars in thefield, each of the chapters is embedded in theory, but contemporary and futuristic in its implications. This Handbook serves as a blueprint for identifying new work for sociologists of education and other scholars and policymakers trying to understand many of the problems of inequality in education and what is needed to address them.  

Editors and Affiliations

  • College of Education, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

    Barbara Schneider

About the editor

Barbara Schneider is the John A. Hannah Chair and Distinguished Professor in the College of Education and Department of Sociology at MSU. She is the principal investigator of the College Ambition Program (CAP), a study that tests a model for promoting a STEM college-going culture in two high schools that encourages adolescents to pursue STEM majors in college and occupations in these fields. She worked for 18 years at University of Chicago, holding positions as a professor in Sociology and Human Development and senior researcher at the National Opinion Research Center (NORC). She remains a senior fellow at NORC, where she is the principal investigator of the Center for Advancing Research and Communication in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. She uses a sociological lens to understand societal conditions and interpersonal interactions that create norms and values that enhance human and social capital. Her research focuses on how the social contexts of schools and families influence the academic and social well being of adolescents as they move into adulthood. Professor Schneider has published 15 books and over 100 articles and reports on family, social context of schooling, and sociology of knowledge. She recently was the editor of Sociology of Education.

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