COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATIONS IN EDUCATION
GENERAL READING LIST
Fall 2006
I.
GENERAL THEORIES
Akerlof, George A. and Rachel E. Kranton. 2002. "Identity and Schooling: Some Lessons
for the Economics of Education." Journal of Economic Literature 40(4):1167201.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. New
York: 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. 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.
(180-244, 416-444)
Meyer, John. W. 1977. “The Effects of Education as an Institution.” American Journal of
Sociology 83: 55-77.
Sorokin, Pitirim. 1959. Social and Cultural Mobility. New York, NY: The Free Press.
Turner, Ralph. 1960. “Sponsored and Contest Mobility and the School System,”
American Sociological Review 25(6): 855-867.
II.
SOCIAL EFFECTS OF EDUCATION
Apple, Michael W. 1990. Ideology and Curriculum. New York, NY: Routledge.
Bowles, Samuel and Herbert Gintis. 1976. Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational
Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life. Basic Books. (151-179)
Clark, B. 1983. The Higher Education System. Berkeley, CA: University of California
Press.
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly and Barbara Schneider. 2000. Becoming Adult: How Teenagers
Prepare for the World of Work. New York: Basic Books.
DiMaggio, Paul. 1982. “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.
Dreeben, Robert. 1968. On What Is Learned in School. Addison-Wesley. (28-62)
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)
Meyer, John and Brian Rowan. 1977. "Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure
as Myth and Ceremony." American Journal of Sociology 83: 340-363.
Natriello, G., E. McDill, A. Pallas. 1990. Schooling Disadvantaged Children. New York:
Teachers College.
Parsons, Talcott. 1959. "The School Class as a Social System: Some of Its Functions in
American Society," Harvard Educational Review 29: 297-318.
Spring, Joel H. 1976. The Sorting Machine. New York: David McKay.
William Rau and Ann Durand. 2000. “The Academic Ethic and College Grades: Does
Hard Work Help Students to "Make the Grade"?” Sociology of Education 73
(1): 19-38.
III.
PSYCHOSOCIAL ASPECTS OF SCHOOLING
Coleman, James. The Adolescent Society.
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.
Moody, James. 2001. “Race, School Integration, and Friendship Segregation in
America.” American Journal of Sociology 107: 679-716.
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.
Shanahan, Michael J. 2000. “Pathways to Adulthood: Variability and Mechanisms in Life
Course Perspective.” Annual Review of Sociology 26: 667-692.
IV.
SCHOOLS AS ORGANIZATIONS
Arum, Richard. 1996. "Do Private Schools Force Public Schools to Compete?" American
Sociological Review 61 (1): 29-46.
Barr, Rebecca and Robert Dreeben. 1983. How Schools Work. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press.
Bryk, Anthony S., Valerie E. Lee, and Peter B. Holland. 1993. Catholic Schools and the
Common Good. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Chubb, John. E. and Terry M. Moe. 1990. Politics, Markets, and America’s Schools.
Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution.
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)
Ingersoll, Richard M. 2003. Who Controls Teachers’ Work? Power and Accountability in
America’s Schools. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
McDill, Edward L., Gary Natriello, and Aaron M. Pallas. 1986. "A Population at Risk:
Potential Consequences of Tougher School Standards for Student Dropouts."
American Journal of Education 94 (2): 135-81.
Weick, Karl E. 1976. "Educational Organizations as Loosely Coupled Systems."
Administrative Science Quarterly 21 (1): 1-19.
Willis, Paul. 1981. Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working
Class Jobs. New York: Columbia University Press.
V.
EDUCATIONAL STRATIFICATION
Alexander, Karl L. and Doris R. Entwisle. 1988. Achievement in the First 2 Years of
School: Patterns and Processes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Brown, David K. 2001. “The Social Sources of Educational Credentialism: Status
Cultures, Labor Markets, and Organizations.” Sociology of Education 74: 19-34.
Coleman, James S. 1990. Equality and Achievement in Education. Boulder: Westview
Press. (63-126)
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. 2000. “Leveling the Playing Field? Students’
Educational Attainment and States’ Performance Testing.” Sociology of
Education 73: 196-218.
Orfield, Gary. 1996. Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown Vs. Board
of Education. New York, NY: The New 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 the Oppositional
Culture Explanation for Racial/Ethnic Differences in School Performance.” American
Sociological Review 63:536-53.
Dance, Lory Janelle. 2002. Tough Fronts: The Impact of Street Culture on Schooling.
New York: Routledge.
Epps, Edgar G. 1995. “Race, Class, and Educational Opportunity: Trends in the
Sociology of Education.” Sociological Forum 10: 593-608.
Hedges, Larry, and Amy Nowell. 1999. Changes in the Black-White Gap in Achievement
Test Scores. SOE 72(April): 111-135.
Noguera, Pedro. 2003. City Schools and the American Dream. Reclaiming the Promise of
Public Education. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
Ogbu, John. 1978. Minority Education and Caste. New York: Academics.
Ogbu, John. 2003. Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic
Disengagement. Nahway, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associates. (3-76)
Mickelson, Roslyn Arlin. 1990. “The Attitude-Achievement Paradox among
Black Adolescents.” Sociology of Education 63 (1): 44-61.
Steinberg, Laurence D., Sanford M. Dornbusch, and B. Bradford Brown. 1992. “Ethnic
Differences in Adolescent Achievement: An Ecological Perspective.” American
Psychologist 47: 723-729.
Valenzuela, Angela. 1999. Subtractive Schooling: US-Mexican Youth and the
Politics of Caring. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Waters, Mary C. 1999. Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and
American Realities. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation.
b. Class
Bourdieu, Pierre and Jean Claude Passeron. 1977. Reproduction in Education, Society,
and Culture. London: Sage Publications.
Carbonaro, William. 1998. “A Little Help from My Friends’ Parents: Intergenerational
Closure and Educational Outcomes.” Sociology of Education 71: 295-313.
Eccles, Jacquelynne S. and Rena D. Harold. 1993. “Parent-School Involvement during
the Early Adolescent Years.” Teacher’s College Record 94: 568-587.
Karabel, Jerome. 2005. The Chosen: the Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at
Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.
Kerckhoff, Alan C., Richard T. Campbell, and Jerry Trott. 1982. "Dimensions of
Educational and Occupational Attainment in Great Britain." American
Sociological Review 40 (June): 347-364.
Lareau, Annette. 2003. Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life. Berkeley:
University of California Press.
Lareau, Annette. 1989. Home Advantage: Social Class and Parental Intervention in
Elementary Education. Lanham, MA: Rowman & Littlefield.
Massey, Douglas et. al. 2003. The Source of the River: the Social Origins of Freshmen at
America's Selective Colleges and Universities. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton
University Press.
Mayer, Susan E. 1999. “How Rich and Poor Children Differ.” Pp. 39-54 in What Money
Can't Buy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard.
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. 1999. "Parent Involvement as Social Capital: Differential
Effectiveness on Science Achievement, Truancy, and Dropping Out." Social
Forces 78: 117-144.
Mounts, Nina and Laurence Steinberg. 1995. “An Ecological Analysis of Peer Influence
on Adolescent Grade Point Average and Drug Use.” Developmental Psychology 31:
915-922.
Stanton-Salazar, Ricardo and Sanford M. Dornbusch. 1995. “Social Capital and the
Reproduction of Inequality: Information Networks among Mexican-Origin High
School Students.” Sociology of Education 68: 116-135.
c. Gender
Bettie, Julie. 2003. Women Without Class: Girls, Race, and Identity. Berkeley, CA:
University of California Press.
Correll, Shelley. 2001. “Gender and the Career Choice Process: The Role of Biased SelfAssessments.” American Journal of Sociology 106: 1691-1730.
Eder, Donna. 1995. School Talk: Gender and Adolescent Culture. New Brunswick, NJ:
Rutgers University Press.
Eder, Donna. 1985. "The Cycle of Popularity: Interpersonal Relations Among Female
Adolescents." Sociology of Education 58:154-65.
Muller, Chandra. 1998. “Gender Differences in Parental Involvement and Adolescents'
Mathematics Achievement,” Sociology of Education 71: 336-356.
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.
VI.
CURRICULUM
Carbonaro, William. 2005. “Tracking, Students’ Effort, and Academic Achievement.”
Sociology of Education 78: 27-49.
Gamoran, Adam. 1992. "The Variable Effects of High School Tracking." American
Sociological Review 57 (6): 812-828.
Gamoran, Adam and Robert D. Mare. 1989. "Secondary School Tracking and Education
Inequality: Compensation, Reinforcement, or Neutrality?" American Journal of
Sociology 94 (5): 1146-1183.
Loveless, Tom, ed. 2001. The Great Curriculum Debate: How Should We Teach Reading
and Math? Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.
Lucas, Samuel R. and Mark Berends. 2002. “Sociodemographic Diversity, Correlated
Achievement, and De Facto Tracking.” Sociology of Education 75: 328-348.
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. 1998. “Opportunities for Learning:
Course Sequences and Positional Advantages.” Social Psychology of Education 2:
25-53.
Stevenson, D.L., K.S. Schiller, and B. Schneider, “Sequences of Opportunities for
Learning,” Sociology of Education 67:184-198 (1994).
COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATIONS IN EDUCATION
SUB-FIELD IN ADOLESCENCE
Fall 2006
Peer Relationships and School Culture
Crosnoe, Robert. 2000. “Friendships in Childhood and Adolescence: The Life Course and
New Directions.” Social Psychology Quarterly 63: 377-391.
Giordano, Peggy C. 2003. “Relationships in Adolescence.” Annual Review of Sociology
29:257-281.
Hartup, Willard and Nan Stevens. 1997. “Friendships and Adaptation in the Life Course.”
Psychological Bulletin 121: 355-370.
Smetana, Judith G., Nicole Campione-Barr and Aaron Metzger. 2006. “Adolescent
Development in Interpersonal and Societal Contexts.” Annual Review of
Psychology 57: 255-284.
Haynie, D. L. (2001). Delinquent peers revisited: Does network structure matter?
American Journal of Sociology, 106, 1013-1057.
Bearman, P., & Bruckner, H. (1999). Peer influence on adolescent girls’ sexual debut
and pregnancy: An analysis of a national survey of adolescent girls. Washington,
DC: National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.
Crosnoe, Robert, Chandra Muller, and Kenneth Frank. 2004. “Peer Context and the
Consequences of Adolescent Drinking.” Social Problems 51: 288-304.
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.
Feld, S.L. 1981. “The Focused Organization of School Ties.” American Journal of
Sociology 86:1015-1035.
Barber, Bonnie L., Jacquelynne S. Eccles, and Margaret R. Stone. 2001. "Whatever
Happened to the Jock, the Brain, and the Princess?: Young Adult Pathways
Linked to Adolescent Activity Involvement and Social Identity." Journal of
Adolescent Research 16(5):429-55.
Moody, James and Douglas R. White. 2003. “Social Cohesion and Embeddedness: A
Hierarchical Conception of Social Groups.” American Sociological Review 68:
103-127.
Shouse, Roger C. 1996. “Academic Press and Sense of Community: Conflict and
Congruence in American High Schools.” Research in Sociology of Education and
Socialization 11: 173-202
Lightfoot, Sara Lawrence. 1983. The Good High School: Portraits of Character and
Culture. New York: Basic Books.
McFarland, D.A. (2001). Student resistance: How the formal and informal organization
of classrooms facilitate everyday forms of student defiance. American Journal of
Sociology, 107, 612-678.
Simmons, Roberta G. and Dale A. Blythe. 1987. Moving into Adolescence: The Impact of
Pubertal Change and School Context. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter.
Kinney, David. 1999. “From ‘Headbangers’ to ‘Hippies’: Delineating Adolescents’
Active Attempts to Form an Alternative Peer Culture.” New Directions for Child
and Adolescent Development 84:21-35.
Intergenerational Relations
Alexander, Karl L., Doris R. Entwisle, and Maxine S. Thompson. 1987. “School
Performance, Status Relations, and the Structure of Sentiment: Brining the
Teacher Back In.” American Sociological Review 52: 665-682.
Sanders, Mavis G. and Will J. Jordan. 2000. “Student-Teacher Relations and Academic
Achievement in High School.” Pp. 65-82 in Schooling Students Placed at Risk:
Research, Policy, and Practice in the Education of Poor and Minority
Adolescents, edited by Mavis G. Sanders. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Furstenberg, F.F. and M.E. Hughes. 1995. “Social Capital and Successful Development
among At-Risk Youth.” Journal of Marriage and the Family 57:580-592.
Cox, Martha and Blair Paley. 1997. “Families as Systems.” Annual Review of Psychology
48: 243-267.
Fletcher, Anne, Nancy Darling, Laurence Steinberg, and Sanford M. Dornbusch. 1995.
“The Company They Keep: Relation of Adolescents’ Adjustment and Behavior
and their Friends’ Perceptions of Authoritative Parenting in the Social Network.”
Developmental Psychology 31: 300-310.
Stattin, Hakan and Margaret Kerr. 2002. “Parental Monitoring: A Reinterpretation.”
Child Development 71: 1072-1085.
Bronfenbrenner, Urie. 1986. "Ecology of the Family as a Context for Human
Development: Research Perspectives." Developmental Psychology 22: 723-742.
Health and General Development
Clausen, John.1991. “Adolescent Competence and the Life Course, or Why One Social
Psychologist Needed a Concept of Personality.” Social Psychology Quarterly 54:
4-14.
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.
Elkind David. 1967. “Egocentrism in Adolescence.” Child Development 38:1025-34.
Hunter, Jeremy and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. 2003. “The Positive Psychology of
Interested Adolescents,” Journal of Youth and Adolescents 32: 27-40.
Rosenberg, M., C. Schooler, C. Schoenbach, and F. Rosenberg. 1995. “Global Selfesteem and Specific Self-Esteem: Different Concepts, Different Outcomes.”
American Sociological Review 60:141-156.
Roeser, Robert and Jacquelyne S. Eccles. 2000. “Schooling and Mental Health.” Pp. 135156 in Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology, edited by Arnold J.
Sameroff and Michael Lewis, and Suzanne Miller. Dordrecht, Netherlands:
Kluwer.
Steinberg, Laurence, and Amanda Sheffield Morris. 2001. “Adolescent Development.”
Annual Review of Psychology 52: 83-110.
Dornbusch, Sanford. 1989. “Sociology of Adolescence.” Annual Review of Sociology
15(1989): 233-259.
Furstenberg, Frank F. 2000. “The Sociology of Adolescence and Youth in the 1990s: A
Critical Commentary.” Journal of Marriage and Family 62:896-910.
Eccles, J. S., & Wigfield, A. (2002). Motivational beliefs, values, and goals. Annual
Review of Psychology, 53, 109-132.
Crockett, Lisa J. and Anne C. Petersen. 1993. “Adolescent Development: Health Risks
and Opportunities for Health Promotion.” Pp. 13-37 in Promoting the Health of
Adolescents: New Directions for the 21st Century, edited by Susan G. Millstein,
Anne C. Petersen, and Elena O. Nightingale. New York: Oxford.
Dielman, T.E., S.L. Leech, A.T. Lorenger, and W.J. Horvath. 1984. “Health Locus of
Control and Self-Esteem as Related to Adolescent Health Behavior and
Intentions.” Adolescence 29:935-950.
Behavior, Adjustment, and Relationships as Schooling Outcomes
Caspi, Avshalom Donald Lynam, and Terrie E. Moffitt. 1993. “Unraveling Girls’
Delinquency: Biological, Dispositional, and Contextual Contributions to
Adolescent Misbehavior.” Developmental Psychology 29: 19-30.
Chen, Zeng-yin and Howard B. Kaplan. 2003. “School Failure in Early Adolescence and
Status Attainment in Middle Adulthood: A Longitudinal Study.” Sociology of
Education 76: 110-127.
Kingston, Paul W., Ryan Hubbard, Brent Lapp, Paul Schroeder, and Julia Wilson. 2003.
“Why Education Matters.” Sociology of Education 76: 53-70.
Schulenberg, John, Jerald G. Bachman, Patrick M. O’Malley, and Lloyd D. Johnston.
1994. “High School Educational Success and Subsequent Substance Use: A Panel
Analysis Following Adolescents to Young Adulthood.” Journal of Health and
Social Behavior 35: 45-62.
Arland Thornton, William G. Axinn, and Jay D. Teachman. 1995. “The Influence of
School Enrollment and Accumulation on Cohabitation and Marriage in Early
Adulthood.” American Sociological Review 60: 762-774.
Joyner, Kara and Grace Kao. 2000. “School Racial Composition and Adolescent Racial
Homophily.” Social Science Quarterly 81: 810-825.
Kubitschek, Warren and Maureen Hallinan. 1998. “Tracking and Students' Friendships.”
Social Psychology Quarterly 61: 1-15.
Quillian, Lincoln and Mary Campbell. 2003. "Class, Race, and School Racial
Composition in the Formation of Interracial Friendships." American Sociological
Review 68(4):540-566.
Extracurricular Activities
Broh, Beckett A. 2002. "Linking Extracurricular Programming to Academic
Achievement: Who Benefits and Why?" Sociology of Education 75(1):69-91.
Clotfelter, Charles T. 2002. "Interracial Contact in High School Extracurricular
Activities." The Urban Review 34(1):25-46.
Eder, Donna and Stephen Parker. 1987. "The Cultural Production and Reproduction of
Gender: The Effect of Extracurricular Activities on Peer-Group Culture."
Sociology of Education 60(3):200-213.
Fejgin, Naomi. 1994. "Participation in High School Competitive Sports: A Subversion of
School Mission or Contribution to Academic Goals?" Sociology of Sport Journal
11 (3):211-30.
Guest, Andrew and Barbara Schneider. 2003. "Adolescents' Extracurricular Participation
in Context: The Mediating Effects of Schools, Communities, and Identity."
Sociology of Education 76(2):89-109.
Hanson, Sandra L. and Rebecca S. Kraus. 1998. "Women, Sports, and Science: Do
Female Athletes Have an Advantage?" Sociology of Education 71(2):93-110.
Mahoney, Joseph and Robert Cairns. 1997. "Do Extracurricular Activities Protect
Against Early School Dropout?" Developmental Psychology 33(2):241-53.
McNeal, Ralph B. Jr. 1995. "Extracurricular Activities and High School Dropouts."
Sociology of Education 68(1):62-80.
Quiroz, Pamela A., N. F. Gonzales, and Kenneth A. Frank. 1996. "Carving a Niche in the
High School Social Structure: Formal and Informal Constraints on Participation in
the Extra Curriculum." Sociology of Education and Socialization, vol. 11, edited
by Aaron Pallas. London: JAI Press.