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The major theories explored are those concerned with social mobility and those which derive from a relativist position in Sociology, both of which see education as a selection mechanism for a stratified society. Social class, family, sociolinguistics and schools are among the topics discussed. In this analysis the author: defines key areas in the sociology of education gives access to important concepts of Marx and Engels strengthens sociological starting points by adding a Marxist element discriminates between radically different directions in education maps the main features of long-term wor

From the contents Preface -- Introduction -- I: Theoretical and Methodological Orientations -- II: Development and Expansion of Education -- III: The Study of Access to Schooling -- IV: The Study of School Organization -- V: The Study of School Outcomes -- VI: Policy Implications of Research in Sociology of Education

Featuring research from settings as diverse as rural China, Germany and the United States, as well as two cross-national comparative studies, this insightful volume demonstrates that many educational issues (including student victimization and STEM outcomes) are not limited to specific societies but are relevant worldwide

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword / A Much-Needed Project / Michèle Lamont -- ONE / Education in a New Society: Renewing the Sociology of Education / Jal Mehta and Scott Davies -- PART ONE / THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES -- TWO / Social Theory and the Coming Schooled Society / David P. Baker -- THREE / The Deepening Interpenetration of Education in Modern Life / Scott Davies and Jal Mehta -- FOUR / An Institutional Geography of Knowledge Exchange: Producers, Exports, Imports, Trade Routes, and Metacognitive Metropoles / Steven Brint -- FIVE / Professional Education in the University Context: Toward an Inhabited Institutional View of Socialization / Tim Hallett and Matt Gougherty -- PART TWO / SUBSTANTIVE CONTRIBUTIONS -- SIX / Talking Pigs? Lessons from Elite Schooling / Shamus Khan -- SEVEN / What's Up with Assessment? / Richard Arum and Amanda Cook -- EIGHT / College and University Campuses as Sites for Political Formation: A Cultural-Organizational Approach / Amy Binder -- NINE / Digital Badges and Higher Education in a New Society: A Bersteinian Analysis / Michael Olneck -- TEN / Research Universities and the Global Battle for the Brains / John D. Skrentny and Natalie M. Novick -- PART THREE / OLD THEMES, NEW PERSPECTIVES -- ELEVEN / The Expansion of the "School Form" and Deepening Inequality / David Karen -- TWELVE / Reopening the Black Box of Educational Disadvantage: Why We Need New Answers to Old Questions / Janice Aurini and Cathlene Hillier -- THIRTEEN / Schools as Great Distractors: Why Socioeconomic-Based Achievement Gaps Persist / Douglas B. Downey -- FOURTEEN / Race and White Supremacy in the Sociology of Education: Shifting the Intellectual Gaze / John B. Diamond -- FIFTEEN / Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Processes in Education: New Approaches for New Times / Natasha Kumar Warikoo.

This is a provocative and challenging monograph that engages with a wide range of issues in original ways and will undoubtedly stiumlate debate among educationists. Rob Moore's collection is unique in that it brings together a range of areas in the sociology of knowledge and education (epistemological, aesthetic, curricular, the world of work, educational policy) that are concentionally analysed in isolation from one another.