Schools and societies

Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Schools as Social Institutions -- Chapter 2. Schooling in the Industrialized World -- Chapter 3. Schooling in the Developing World -- Chapter 4. Schools and Cultural Transmission -- Chapter 5. Schools and Socialization -- Chapter 6. Schools and Social Selection: Opportunity -- Chapter 7. Schools and Social Selection: Inequality -- Chapter 8. Teaching and Learning in Comparative Perspective -- Chapter 9. School Reform -- Coda. The Possibilities of Schooling -- Notes -- References -- Index