Sociology of education comps reading list (2002)
I. Sources from:
Arum, Richard, and Irenee R. Beattie (Eds.). 2000. The Structure of Schooling: Readings in the
Sociology of Education. Mountain View, CA: Mayfied Publishing Company.
THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
Status Attainment and Social Mobility
Weber, Max. 1946. “The "Rationalization" of Education and Training.” in Max Weber: Essays in
Sociology, edited by Mex Weber: Oxford University Press.
Sorokin, Pitirim. 1959. Social and Cultural Mobility: The Free Press, a division of Simon &
Schuster, Inc.
Turner, Ralph. 1960. “Sponsored and Contest Mobility and the School System.” American
Sociological Review 25.
Blau, Peter Michael, and Otis Dudley Duncan. 1967. “The Process of Stratification.” in The
American Occupational Structure: The Free Press, division of Simon and Schuster, Inc.
Human, Cultural, and Social Capital
Schultz, Theodore W. 1961. “Investment in Human Capital.” The American Economic Review
51.
Bourdieu, Pierre. “Cultural Reproduction and Social Reproduction.” in Knowledge, Education,
and Cultural Change, edited by Richard Brown. London: Tavistock Publications.
Coleman, James, and Thomas Hoffer. 1987. Public and Private High Schools: The Impact of
Communities: Basic Books, a member of Perseus Books Group, LLC.
Changing Theories of Education Systems
Durkheim, Emile. 1973. Moral Education: A Study in the Theory and Application of Sociology
of Education: The Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Waller, Willard. 1965. The Sociology of Teaching: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Collins, Randall. 1971. “Functional and Conflict Theories of Educational Stratification.”
American Sociological Review 36.
Historical Accounts
Bowles, Samuel, and Herbert Gintis. 1976. Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform
and the Contradictions of Economic Life: Basic Books, a member of Perseus Books,
LLC.
Tyack, David, and Elisabeth Hansot. 1992. Learning Together: A History of Co-education in
American Public Schools: Russell Sage Foundation.
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STRATIFICATION WITHIN AND BETWEEN SCHOOLS
School Sector
Cookson, Peter, and Caroline Persell. 1985. Preparing for Power: American's Elite Boarding
Schools: Basic Books, a member of Perseus Books Group, LLC.
Racial Segregation and Resource Inequality
Coleman, James, Ernest Campbell, Carol Hobson, James McPartland, Alexander Mood,
Frederick Weinfeld, and Robert York. 1966. “Summary Report: "The Coleman Report:"
Equality of Educational Opportunity.” . Washington, D.C.
Entswisle, Doris R., Karl L. Alexander, and Linda Steffel Olson. 1997. Children, Schools, and
Inequality. Boulder, Co: Westview Press.
Jencks, Christopher, Marshall Smith, Henry Acland, Mary Jo Bane, David Cohen, Herbert
Gintis, Barbara Heyns, and Stephan Michelson. 1972. “Inequality in Educational
Attainment.” in Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling in
America: Basic Books.
Kozol, Jonathan. 1991. Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools: Crown Publishers.
Orfield, Gary. 1996. Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown vs. Board of
Education: The New Press.
Tracking
Gamoran, Adam. 1992. “Is Ability Grouping Equitable?” Educational Leadership and
Administration 50.
Hallinan, Maureen T. 1994. “Tracking: From Theory to Practice.” Sociology of Education 67.
Oakes, Jeannie. 1985. Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality: Yale University Press.
CLASS, RACE, AND GENDER
Class
Blossfield, Hans-Peter, and Yossi Shavit. 1993. Persistent Inequality: Westview Press.
Lareau, Annette. 1987. “Social Class Differences in Family-School Relationships: The
Importance of Cultural Capital.” Sociology of Education 60:73-85.
MacLeod, Jay. 1995. Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income
Neighborhood: Westview Press.
Willis, Paul. 1981. Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs. New
York: Columbia University Press.
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II.
ARTICLES
Ainsworth-Darnell, James and Douglas Downey. 1998. “Assessing Racial/Ethnic Differences in
School Performance.” American Sociological Review 63:536-53.
Carbonaro, William. 1998. “A Little Help from My Friends’ Parents: Intergenerational Closure
and Educational Outcomes.” Sociology of Education 71: 295-313.
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.
Cox, Martha and Blair Paley. 1997. “Families as Systems.” Annual Review of Psychology 48:
243-267.
Crosnoe, Robert. 2000. “Friendships in Childhood and Adolescence: The Life Course and New
Directions.” Social Psychology Quarterly 63: 377-391.
Dornbusch, Sanford M. 1989. “The Sociology of Adolescence.” Annual Review of Sociology 15:
233-259.
Elder, Glen H. Jr. 1998. “Life Course and Human Development.” Pp. 939-991 in Handbook of
Child Psychology, edited by William Damon. New York: Wiley.
Elder, Glen H., Jr. 1998. “The life Course as Developmental Theory.” Child Development
69: 1-12.
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.
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.
Furstenberg, Frank and Mary Elizabeth Hughes. 1993. “Social Capital and Successful
Development Among At-Risk Youth.” Journal of Marriage and Family 57: 580-592.
Hartup, Willard and Nan Stevens. 1997. “Friendships and Adaptation in the Life Course.”
Psychological Bulletin 121: 355-370.
Masten, Ann S. and J. Douglas Coatsworth. 1998. “The Development of Competence in
Favorable and Unfavorable Environments: Lessons from Research on Successful
Children.” American Psychologist 53: 205-220.
McLoyd, Vonnie L. 1990. “The Impact of Economic Hardship on Black Families and
Children: Psychological Distress, Parenting, and Socioemotional Development”. Child
Development 61: 311-346.
Miller, Kathleen, Donald Sabo, Michael Farrell, Grace Barnes, and Merrill Melnick. 1994.
“Athletic Participation and Sexual Behavior in Adolescents: The Different Worlds of Boys
and Girls.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 39: 108-123.
Ogbu, John. 1991. “Low Performance as an Adaptation: The Case of Blacks in Stockton,
California.” Pp. 249-85 in Minority Status and Schooling, edited by M.A. Gibson and
John Ogbu. New York: Grand.
Savin-Williams, Ritch and Thomas Berndt. 1990. “Friendships and Peer Relations.” Pp. 277-307
in At the Threshold, edited by Shirley Feldman and Glen Elliott. Cambridge, MA: Harvard.
Steinberg, Laurence and Amanda Sheffield Morris. 2000. “Adolescent Development.”
Annual Review of Psychology 52: 83-100.
Steinberg, Laurence D., Sanford M. Dornbusch, and B. Bradford Brown. 1992. “Ethnic
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Differences in Adolescent Achievement: An Ecological Perspective.” American Psychologist
47: 723-729.
Shanahan, Michael J. 2000. “Adolescence”. In Edgar F. Borgatta (Ed.), Encyclopedia of
Sociology. New York: MacMillan.
Shanahan, Michael J. 2000. “Pathways to Adulthood: Variability and Mechanisms in Life
Course Perspective.” Annual Review of Sociology 26: 667-692.
Sakamoto, Arthur, and Jessie M. Tzeng. 1999. “A Fifty-Year Perspective on the Declining
Significance of Race in the Occupational Attainment of White and Black Men.”
Sociological Perspectives 42:157-179.
Bidwell, C.E. 1965. “The School as a Formal Organization.” In Handbook of
Organizations, 972-1022, edited by James G. March. Chicago: Rand McNally.
---------. 1973. “The Social Psychology of Teaching.” In Second Handbook of Research on
Teaching, pp. 413-449, R.M.W. Travers (ed.) Chicago: Rand-McNally.
Farkas, G. 1996. “Human Capital or Cultural Capital?” Ethnicity and Poverty Groups in an
Urban School District. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
Hallinan, M.T. and A.B. Sørensen. 1983. “The Formation and Stability of Instructional Groups.”
American Sociological Review, 48: 838-851.
Hallinan, M. and R. Williams. 1989. “Interracial Friendship Choices in Secondary Schools.”
American Sociological Review, 54: 67-78.
Kao, G. and M. Tienda. 1995. “Optimism and Achievement: The Educational Performance of
Immigrant Youth.” Social Science Quarterly, 76: 1-19.
Orfield, G. and N. Gordon. 2001. “Schools More Separate: Consequences of a Decade of
Resegregation. New Research Findings.” Cambridge, MA: The Civil Rights Project,
Harvard University.
Pong, S. 1998. “The School Compositional Effect of Single Parenthood on 10th-Grade
Achievement.” Sociology of Education. 71(1): 24-43.
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III.
BOOKS
Bronfenbrenner, Urie 1979. The Ecology of Human Development: Experiments by Nature and
Design. Cambridge, MA: Harvard.
Call, Kathleen T. and Jeylan T. Mortimer. 2001. Arenas of Comfort in Adolescence: A Study of
Adjustment in Context. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Furstenberg, Frank, Thomas Cook, Jacquelynne Eccles, Glen Elder, and Arnold Sameroff. 1999.
Managing to Make It: Urban Families and Adolescent Success. Chicago: University of
Chicago.
Wang, Margaret C. and Edmund W. Gordon (Eds.). 1994. Educational Resilience in Inner-City
America: Challenges and Prospects. Hillsdale: Erlbaum Associates.
Bowles, Samuel, and Herbert Gintis. 1976. Schooling in Capitalist America. New York: Basic
Books.
Collins, Randall. 1979. The Credential Society: a historical sociology of education and
stratification. New York: Academic Press.
Kerbo, Harold R. 1983. Social Stratification and Inequality: Class Conflict in the United States
[Chapters 3-5]. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Thurow, Lester. 1975. Generating Inequality: Mechanisms of distribution in the U.S. economy.
New York: Basic Books.
Coleman, J.S. 1961. The Adolescent Society: The Social Life of the Teenager and its Impact on
Education. New York: Free Press of Glencoe.
Dewey, J. 1900. The School and Society. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Fuller, B., R.F. Elmore, and G. Orfield, Eds. 1996. Who Chooses? Who Loses?: Culture,
Institutions, and the Unequal Effects of School Choice. New York: Teachers College
Press.
Lareau, A. 2000. Home Advantage: Social Class and Parental Intervention in Elementary
Education, 2nd Edition. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Lortie, D.C. 1975. Schoolteacher: A Sociological Study. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Sadker, M. and D. Sadker. 1994. Failing at Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls. New
York: Simon & Schuster.
Schneider, B., and J.S. Coleman. 1993. Parents, Their Children, and Schools. Boulder, CO:
Westview Press.
Schneider, B., and D. Stevenson. 1999. The Ambitious Generation: America’s Teenagers:
Motivated But Directionless. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Valenzuela, A. 1999. Subtractive Schooling: U.S. – Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring.
New York: SUNY Press.
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