Leaders in the Sociology of Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Leaders in the Sociology of Education

   • Alan R. Sadovnik, Ryan W. Coughlan

   Pages 1-11

3. Continuity and Change

   • Stephen J. Ball

   Pages 13-27

4. Intellectual Self-Portrait

   • Jomills Henry Braddock II

   Pages 29-36

5. Thinking about Schools and Universities as Social Institutions

   • Steven Brint

   Pages 37-55

6. Com Muito Axé

   • Sara Delamont

   Pages 57-67

7. Searching for Equity in Education

   • Joyce L. Epstein

   Pages 69-85

8. Striving Towards the Big Questions

   • Adam Gamoran

   Pages 87-100

9. The Sociology of a Life

   • A. H. Halsey

   Pages 101-114

10. Engaging the Sociological Imagination

    • Hugh Mehan

    Pages 115-130

11. The Accidental Sociologist of Education

    • Roslyn Arlin Mickelson

    Pages 131-151

12. Power, Purpose and the Rise of the Rest

    • Gerard A. Postiglione

    Pages 153-170

13. Education, Gender, and Development

    • Francisco O. Ramirez

    Pages 171-184

14. Discovering Unseen Social Contexts and Potential Levers for Social Change

    • James E. Rosenbaum

    Pages 185-199

15. Holocaust Memories

    • Alan R. Sadovnik

    Pages 201-216

16. Beginning a Journey and Choosing a Path

    • Barbara Schneider

    Pages 217-229

17. The Making of a Political Sociologist of Education

    • Carlos Alberto Torres

    Pages 231-252

18. Reading and Producing Research across Boundaries that So Often Divide

    • Lois Weis

    Pages 253-274

19. Critical Theory and Education

    • Philip Wexler

    Pages 275-285

20. My Life with the Sociology of Education

    • Geoff Whitty

    Pages 287-300

Leaders in the Sociology of Education: Intellectual Self-Portraits contains eighteen self-portraits written by some of the leading sociologists of education in the world. Representing the United States, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong, the authors discuss a variety of factors that have affected their lifetime of scholarship, including their childhoods, their education and mentors, the state of the field during their “coming of age,” the institutions where they have worked, the major sociologists during their lifetimes, the political and economic conditions during their lifetimes, and the social and political movements during their lifetimes. These autobiographical essays reveal a great deal not only about their work and their influences, but also about themselves. Taken as a whole, the book provides sociology of knowledge about the creation of sociology of education research since the 1960s. It reveals a number of important themes central to all of the authors’ work, including educational inequality; the influence of the classical sociological theorists, Karl Marx, Max Weber and Emile Durkheim; and the influence of more recent classical sociologists of education, Basil Bernstein, Pierre Bourdieu and James Coleman. The authors’ research represents a variety of theoretical and methodological orientations including functionalism, conflict and critical theory, interactionist theory and feminist theory, as well as quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods research. Finally, the editors discuss a number of lessons to be learned from the lives and works of these sociologists of education.
   

• Sociology of Education
• Intellectual Self-Portraits
• Sociological Theory
• Educational Inequality
• Educational Inequality

• Rutgers University-Newark, USA

  Alan R. Sadovnik

• Guttman Community College, City University of New York, USA

  Ryan W. Coughlan

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