| Acknowledgments | |
| Preface | |
| List of Contributors | |
| Education and Sociology: An Introduction | p. 1 |
| Adolescence and Schools | p. 17 |
| Adult Education | p. 23 |
| Affirmative Action in Education | p. 29 |
| African-American Achievement Motivation | p. 43 |
| At-Risk Students | p. 49 |
| Bilingual Education | p. 55 |
| Brown V. Board of Education | p. 67 |
| Catholic Schools | p. 75 |
| Classroom Processes | p. 83 |
| Code Theory, Pedagogic Discourse, and Symbolic Control | p. 89 |
| Community Colleges | p. 99 |
| Conflict Theory | p. 111 |
| Cooperative Learning in Elementary and Secondary Schools | p. 115 |
| Cultural Capital | p. 121 |
| Curriculum | p. 125 |
| Curriculum History | p. 133 |
| Desegregation | p. 141 |
| Desegregation of Higher Education | p. 151 |
| Economics of Education | p. 169 |
| Educational Achievement and Attainment in the United States | p. 181 |
| Educational Assessment | p. 191 |
| Educational Attitudes: Abstract and Concrete | p. 199 |
| Educational Productivity | p. 203 |
| Educational Reform and Sociology in England and Wales | p. 211 |
| Educational Reform in the United States: 1980s and 1990s | p. 221 |
| Elites and Educational Reform | p. 235 |
| Equality in Education | p. 241 |
| Ethnicity | p. 247 |
| Ethnography | p. 255 |
| Extracurricular Activities | p. 261 |
| Functionalist Theories of Education | p. 267 |
| Gender and Education | p. 273 |
| Gender and Math Education | p. 281 |
| Gender Inequality | p. 289 |
| Gender Inequality in Education: International Comparisons | p. 295 |
| Gender Socialization and Education: Where We've Been and Where We Might Go | p. 301 |
| Globalization | p. 307 |
| High School Dropouts | p. 315 |
| Higher Education | p. 321 |
| Higher Education: International | p. 329 |
| Higher Education and Social Equality | p. 335 |
| Higher Education in the United States: Access to by Minorities | p. 343 |
| Higher Education in the United States: Latinos | p. 353 |
| Historically Black Colleges | p. 359 |
| Home Schooling: Contemporary | p. 365 |
| Homeless Children and Youth | p. 371 |
| Human Capital Theory | p. 377 |
| Ideology and Curriculum | p. 381 |
| Imperialism and Education | p. 387 |
| International Competition and Education Crises: Cross-National Studies of School Outcomes | p. 393 |
| IQ | p. 399 |
| Longitudinal Studies: An Introduction: Opening the Black Box | p. 403 |
| Longitudinal Studies Data Collection Program | p. 409 |
| Magnet Schools in Urban Education | p. 421 |
| Mass Schooling | p. 429 |
| Meritocracy | p. 435 |
| Multiculturalism | p. 443 |
| Politics of Education | p. 451 |
| Progressive Education | p. 463 |
| Quasi-Markets in Education | p. 473 |
| Race and Education | p. 485 |
| Restructuring | p. 495 |
| School-Based Management: What It Is and Does It Make a Difference | p. 501 |
| School Choice | p. 507 |
| School Effects | p. 519 |
| School, Family, and Community Partnerships | p. 525 |
| School Textbooks and Cultural Authority | p. 533 |
| Single-Sex Education and Coeducation | p. 539 |
| Social Capital: A Ubiquitous Emerging Conception | p. 545 |
| Social Reproduction | p. 551 |
| Sociology of Education as Critical Theory | p. 559 |
| Sociology of Education: Feminist Perspectives: Continuity and Contestation in the Field | p. 571 |
| Sociology of Education: Marxist Theories | p. 587 |
| Sociology of Education: New | p. 593 |
| Sociology of Education: Open Systems Approach | p. 599 |
| Sociology of Education: Postmodernism | p. 605 |
| Sociology of Education: Theoretical Approaches | p. 613 |
| Special Education | p. 619 |
| Sport and Schooling | p. 625 |
| Structuralism | p. 633 |
| Student Cultures and Academic Achievement | p. 639 |
| Summer Learning | p. 645 |
| Teacher Assessment and Evaluation | p. 651 |
| Teacher Burnout | p. 659 |
| Teacher Unions, Old and New | p. 665 |
| Teachers and Teaching | p. 681 |
| Tracking | p. 687 |
| Urban Schools | p. 693 |
| Vocational Education | p. 705 |
| Working Parents | p. 711 |
| Index | p. 717 |
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