ORGANIZATION OF READINGS
I.
SOCIOLOGICAL INTERPRETATIONS/THEORIES OF EDUCATION
Becker, Gary S. 1964. Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with
Special Reference to Education. New York: Columbia University Press.
Blau, Peter M. and Otis D. Duncan. 1967. The American Occupational Structure. The
Free Press.
Bourdieu, Pierre. 1973. Cultural Reproduction and Social Reproduction. In Knowledge,
Education, and Cultural Change. Edited by Brown Richard. London: Tavistock.
Coleman, James S. 1988. “Social Capital and the Creation of Human Capital.”
American Journal of Sociology 94: S95-120
Collins, Randall. 1979. The Credential Society: A Historical Sociology of Education and
Stratification. Vol. ed. Edited by . New York, NY: Academic Press.
Durkheim, Emile. 1977. The Evolution of Educational Thought : Lectures on the
Formation and Development of Secondary Education in France. London:
Routledge & Kegan Paul. (75-124, 215-226)
Gerth, H. and C. Mills. 1946. From Max Weber. New York: Oxford University Press.
(196-264, 416-444)
Parkerson, Donald and Jo Ann Parkerson. 2001. Transitions in American Education: A
Social History of Teaching. New York, NY: Routledge Falmer (Intro, 97-124).
Sorokin, Pitirim. 1959. Social and Cultural Mobility. New York, NY: The Free Press.
Turner, Ralph. “Sponsored and Contest Mobility and the School System,” American
Sociological Review 25(6): 855-867 (1960).
II.
SOCIAL EFFECTS OF EDUCATION
a. Socialization and Social Control
Bowles, Samuel and Herbert Gintis. 1976. Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational
Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life. Basic Books. (151-179)
Dreeben, Roberts. 1968. On What Is Learned in School. Addison-Wesley. (28-62)
Parsons, Talcott, "The School Class as a Social System: Some of Its Functions in
American Society," Harvard Educational Review 29 (Fall): 297-318 (1959).
Spring, Joel H. 1976. The Sorting Machine. New York: David McKay.
b. Institutional Effects
Clark, B. 1983. The Higher Education System. Berkeley, CA: University of California
Press.
Dougherty, Kevin. 1994. The Contradictory College: The Conflicting Origins, Impacts
and Futures of the Community College. Albany: SUNY.
Meyer, John and Brian Rowan, "Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as
Myth and Ceremony," American Journal of Sociology 83: 340-363 (1977).
III.
SCHOOL EFFECTS ON INDIVIDUALS
a. Achievement and Attainment
Apple, Michael W. 1990. Ideology and Curriculum. Vol. . ed. Edited by . New York,
NY: Routledge.
Baker, David P. and David L. Stevenson, "Mothers' Strategies for Children's School
Achievement: Managing the Transition to High School," Sociology of Education
59 (3): 156-166 (1986).
DiMaggio, Paul, “Cultural Capital and School Success: The Impact of Status Culture
Participation on the Grades of U.S. High School Students,” American
Sociological Review 47(2): 189-201 (1982).
Eccles, Jacquelynne S. and Rena D. Harold. 1993. “Parent-School Involvement during
the Early Adolescent Years.” Teacher’s College Record 94: 568-587.
Fine, Michelle. 1991. Framing Dropouts: Notes on the Politics of an Urban Public High
School. New York: SUNY Press.
Heyns, B. 1978. Summer Learning and the Effects of Schooling. New York: Academics.
(39-94)
Natriello, G., E. McDill, A. Pallas. 1990. Schooling Disadvantaged Children. New York:
Teachers College.
Rumberger, R. “High School Dropouts: A Review of Issues and Evidence.” Review of
Educational Research 57(2): 101-121 (1987).
Stevenson, David L. and David P. Baker, "The Family-School Relation and the Child's
School Performance," Child Development 58: 1348-1357 (1987).
b. Health/Social Psychological/Competencies Effects
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly and Barbara Schneider. 2000. Becoming Adult: How Teenagers
Prepare for the World of Work. New York: Basic Books.
Hunter, Jeremy and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, “The Positive Psychology of Interested
Adolescents,” Journal of Youth and Adolescents 32: 27-40 (2003).
Mirowsky, John and Catherine Ross. 2003. Education Social Status and Health. New
York: Aldine De Gruyter.
Ross, Catherine E. and Beckett A. Broh, “The Roles of Self-Esteem and the Sense of
Personal Control in the Academic Achievement Process,” 73 (3): 270-284
(2000).
Ross, Catherine and Marieke Van Willigen, “Education and the Subjective Quality of
Life,” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 38 (3): 275-297 (1997).
Ross, Catherine and Chia-ling Wu, “The Links between Education and Health,”
American Sociological Review 60 (5): 719-745 (1995).
Shernoff, David, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Barbara Schneider, and Elisa Shernoff,
“Student Engagement in High School Classrooms from the Perspective of Flow
Theory.” School Psychology Quarterly 18 (2): 158-176 (2003).
William Rau and Ann Durand, “The Academic Ethic and College Grades: Does Hard
Work Help Students to "Make the Grade"?” Sociology of Education 73 (1): 19-38
(2000).
IV.
SOCIAL PSYCH AND DEVELOPMENTAL EFFECTS ON EDUC
Eccles, Jacquelynne S., Carol Midgely, Allan Wigfield, Christy M. Buchanan, David
Reuman, Douglas MacIver. 1993. “Development During Adolescence: The Impact
of Stage-Environment Fit on Young Adolescents' Experiences in Schools and in
Families.” American Psychologist 48: 90-101.
Elder, Glen H., Jr. 1998. “The life Course as Developmental Theory.” Child
Development 69: 1-12.
Furstenberg, Frank F. 2000. “The Sociology of Adolescence and Youth in the 1990s: A
Critical Commentary.” Journal of Marriage and the Family 62: 896-910.
Kingston, Paul W., Ryan Hubbard, Brent Lapp, Paul Schroeder, and Julia Wilson. 2003.
“Why Education Matters.” Sociology of Education 76: 53-70.
Roeser, Robert W., Jacquelynne S. Eccles, and Arnold J. Sameroff. 2000. “School as a
Context of Early Adolescents' Academic and Social-Emotional Development: A
Summary of Research Findings.” Elementary School Journal 100: 443-471.
V.
SCHOOLS AS ORGANIZATIONS
a. Formal Structure
Barr, Rebecca and Robert Dreeben. 1983. How Schools Work. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press.
Weick, Karl E., "Educational Organizations as Loosely Coupled Systems,"
Administrative Science Quarterly 21 (1): 1-19 (1976).
Gamoran, Adam. 2003. Transforming Teaching in Math and Science: How Schools and
Districts can Support Change. New York, NY: Teachers College Press. (1-22, 63105)
Powell, Arthur G., Eleanor Farrar, and David K. Cohen. 1985. The Shopping Mall High
School : Winners and Losers in the Educational Marketplace. Boston, MA:
Houghton Mifflin.
b. Internal Arrangements and the Classroom
Arum, Richard, "Do Private Schools Force Public Schools to Compete?," American
Sociological Review 61 (1): 29-46 (1996).
Bryk, Anthony S., Valerie E. Lee, and Peter B. Holland. 1993. Catholic Schools and the
Common Good. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Coleman, James S. and Thomas Hoffer. 1987. Public and Private Schools: The Impact of
Communities. New York: Basic Books.
Gambetta, Diego. 1987. Were They Pushed or Did They Jump? Individual Decision
Mechanisms in Education. Edited by Elster, J. and Hernes, G. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. (7-60)
McDill, Edward L., Gary Natriello, and Aaron M. Pallas, "A Population at Risk: Potential
Consequences of Tougher School Standards for Student Dropouts," American
Journal of Education 94 (2): 135-81 (1986).
McNeal, Ralph B. Jr., "High School Extracurricular Activities: ‘Closed’ Structures and
Stratifying Patterns of Participation," Journal of Educational Research 91(3):
183-191 (1998).
Willis, Paul. 1981. Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class
Jobs. New York: Columbia University Press.
VI.
EDUCATIONAL STRATIFICATION
Alexander, Karl L., Bruce K. Eckland, and Larry J. Griffin, "The Wisconsin Model of
Socioeconomic Achievement: A Replication," American Journal of Sociology 81
(324-342) (1975).
Blau, Peter M. and Otis D. Duncan. 1967. The American Occupational Structure. The
Free Press.
Collins, Randall. 1979. The Credential Society: A Historical Sociology of Education and
Stratification. Vol. ed. Edited by . New York, NY: Academic Press.
Cookson, Peter W., Jr. and Caroline H. Persell. 1985. Preparing for Power: America's
Elite Boarding Schools. New York: Basic Books.
Entwisle, Doris R., Karl L. Alexander, and Linda Steffel Olson. 1997. Children, Schools,
and Inequality. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Kozol, Jonathan. 1991. Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools. New York,
NY: Crown.
Muller, Chandra and Kathryn S. Schiller, “Leveling the Playing Field? Students’
Educational Attainment and States’ Performance Testing,” Sociology of
Education 73: 196-218 (2000).
Orfield, Gary. 1996. Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown Vs. Board
of Education. New York, NY: The New Press.
Orfield, Gary. 2001. Schools More Separate: Consequences of a Decade of
Resegregation. New Research Findings. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press.
Sorokin, Pitirim. 1959. Social and Cultural Mobility. New York, NY: The Free Press, a
division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
a. Race
Ainsworth-Darnell, James and Douglas Downey. 1998. “Assessing Racial/Ethnic
Differences in School Performance.” American Sociological Review 63:536-53.
Furstenburg, J., Cook, J. Eccles, J. Elder, Glen and Sameroff, A. 1999. Managing to
Make It: Urban Families and Adolescent Success. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press.
Kao G, Tienda M, “Optimism and Achievement: The Educational Performance of
Immigrant Youth,” Social Science Quarterly 76 (1): 1-19 (1995).
Ogbu, John. 1978. Minority Education and Caste. New York: Academics.
Ogbu, John. “Racial Stratification and Education in the United States: Why Inequality
Persists.” Teachers College Record 96(2): 264-298 (1994).
Mickelson, Roslyn Arlin, “The Attitude-Achievement Paradox Among Black
Adolescents,” Sociology of Education 63 (1): 44-61 (1990).
Wells, Amy S. and Robert Crain. 1997. Stepping Over the Color Line: African-American
Students in White Suburban Schools. Yale University Press.
b. Class
Carbonaro, William. 1998. “A Little Help from My Friends’ Parents: Intergenerational
Closure and Educational Outcomes.” Sociology of Education 71: 295-313.
Fordham, Signithia and John U. Ogbu, "Black Students’ School Success: Coping with the
Burden of "Acting White"," The Urban Review 18 (3): 176-206 (1986).
Kerckhoff, Alan C., Richard T. Campbell, and Jerry Trott, "Dimensions of Educational
and Occupational Attainment in Great Britain," American Sociological Review 40
(June): 347-364 (1982).
Lareau, Annette. 1989. Home Advantage: Social Class and Parental Intervention in
Elementary Education. London: Falmer.
Lareau, Annette and Erin McNamara Horvat. 1999. “Moments of Social Inclusion and
Exclusion: Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in Family-School Relationships.”
Sociology of Education 72: 37-53.
MacLeod, J. 1987. Ain’t no Makin’ It: Levelled Aspirations in a Low Income
Neighborhood. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
McLanahan, Sara and Gary Sandefur. 1994. Growing Up with a Single Parent: What
Hurts, What Helps. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
McNeal, Ralph B. Jr., "Parent Involvement as Social Capital: Differential Effectiveness
on Science Achievement, Truancy, and Dropping Out," Social Forces 78: 117144 (1999).
Schneider, Barbara and James S. Coleman. 1993. Parents, Their Children and Schools.
Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.
Steinberg, Laurence D., B. Bradford Brown, and Sanford M. Dornbusch. 1996. Beyond
the Classroom: Why School Reform has Failed and What Parents Need to Do. New
York: Simon & Schuster.
c. Gender
Chandra Muller, “Gender Differences in Parental Involvement and Adolescents'
Mathematics Achievement,” Sociology of Education 71 (4): 336-356 (1998).
Eder, Donna. 1997. “Sexual Aggression within the School Culture.” Pp. 93-112 in
Gender, Equity, and Schooling: Policy and Practice, edited by Barbara Bank and
Peter Hall. New York: Garland.
Mickelson, Roslyn Arlin, "Why Does Jane Read and Write so Well? The Anomaly of
Women's Achievement," Sociology of Education 62 (1): 47-63 (1989).
Sadker, Myra and David Sadker. 1994. Failing at Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat
Girls. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.
Thorne, Barrie. 1993. Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School. Rutgers University Press.
VII. CURRICULUM
Gamoran, Adam, "Instructional and Institutional Effects of Ability Groups," Sociology of
Education 59 (4): 185-198 (1986).
Gamoran, Adam, "The Variable Effects of High School Tracking," American
Sociological Review 57 (6): 812-828 (1992).
Gamoran, Adam and Robert D. Mare, "Secondary School Tracking and Education
Inequality: Compensation, Reinforcement, or Neutrality?," American Journal of
Sociology 94 (5): 1146-1183 (1989).
Hallinan, Maureen T. "Classroom Racial Composition and Children’s Friendships,"
Social Forces 59 (1): 225-245 (1982).
Kubitschek, Warren and Maureen Hallinan. 1998. “Tracking and Students' Friendships.”
Social Psychology Quarterly 61: 1-15.
Loveless, Tom, ed. 2001. The Great Curriculum Debate: How Should We Teach Reading
and Math? Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press. (1-210)
Lucas SR, Berends M, “Sociodemographic Diversity, Correlated Achievement, and De
Facto Tracking,” Sociology of Education 75 (4): 328-348 (2002).
Oakes, Jeannie. 1985. Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality. New Haven,
CT: Yale University Press. (61-112)
Schneider, B., C.B. Swanson, and C. Riegle-Crumb, “Opportunities for Learning: Course
Sequences and Positional Advantages,” Social Psychology of Education 2:25-53
(1998).
Stevenson, D.L., K.S. Schiller, and B. Schneider, “Sequences of Opportunities for
Learning,” Sociology of Education 67:184-198 (1994).