The Schooled Society

Note: Each chapter includes:
- Learning objectives
- Introduction
- Conclusion
- Questions for critical thought
- Suggested readings
- Web links
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Acknowledgements
Part One: Introduction
1. The Context for the Schooled Society
Introduction: What Is a "Schooled Society"?
How Schools Relate to Society: Three Roles
Setting the Context
Cultural and Demographic Shifts
Plan for the Remainder of the Book
2. Classical Sociological Approaches to Education
Introduction: Using Theory to Study Schools
Durkheim and Socialization: The Micro Foundations of Social Interaction and the Cultural Shift to Individualism
Marx: Industrial Capitalism, Class Inequality, and the Spectre of Selection
Weber: Organizing and Legitimizing Knowledge
Conclusion: From Classical to Contemporary Theory
3. Contemporary Sociological Approaches to Schooling
Socialization: Interaction Rituals and Hidden Curricula
Selection: Inequality and Opportunity
Organizing and Legitimizing Knowledge
Conclusion: Consequences and Directions
Part Two: Selection: Inequality and Opportunity
4. Education Revolutionized: The Growth of Modern Schooling
Beginnings of a Schooled Society
Enrolments and Attendance: Creating a Universal Experience
The Revolution in Expectations
Expanding Curricula
Expanding Functions
Expanding Alternatives
Exporting the School Model
5. The Structural Transformation of Schooling: Accommodation, Competition, and Stratification
Thinking Structurally: Established Stratification
Stratification within Post-Secondary Education
Accommodation
Competition: Maintaining Inequality?
A New Form of Stratification?
Conclusion: The Upward Movement of Educational Selection
6. Unequal Student Attainments: Class and Socio-economic Status
Introduction: The Roles of Schooling in Societal Inequality
Describing Class Inequalities: Rising Attainments, and Persisting Disparities
Causes of Inequality: Schools, Families, and Environments
Mechanisms of Educational Inequality
7. Attainments by Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Other Equity Categories
Gender Inequalities
Racial and Ethnic Variations: Beyond Vertical Mosaic and Abella Images
What is Schooling's Role in Change and Persistence?
Sidebar: Thinking About Equity Categories
Sexuality
Mental Health and Other Emerging Equity Categories
Towards a Sociology of Educational Equity
Part Three: Social Organization and Legitimation
8. The Changing Organization of Schooling
From Traditional to Legal Authority
Institutional Theory: Schools as Loosely Coupled Bureaucracies
Schooling as Work: Motivating Students
Progressive Pedagogy in the Mainstream: Less Structure Is Better
Open Schools, Free Schools, and Deschooling in the 1970s
School Choice and Market Reforms in Education
9. Curriculum: The Content of Schooling
Content: The Multiple Dimensions of Modern Progressivism
Form: Rationalizing and "Blocking" Knowledge
More Rationalized Form: Types of Evaluation, Assessment, and Testing
Social Influences on the Curriculum
Schooling Ghosts in the Hidden Curriculum?
Empirical Research: Socialization Messages, Status Cultures, and Skill Sets
Mechanisms of Stability: Rationalization
Mechanisms: Legitimating Curricula
Mechanisms: Loose Coupling
10. The Sociology of Teaching
Introduction: The Paradoxes of Teaching in a Schooled Society
Teaching and the Sociology of Professions
Jurisdiction: Monopoly without Esoteric Knowledge
Conclusion: How a Noble Task Reinforces Semi-Professionalism
Part Four: Socialization
11. Socialization: The Changing Influence of Schools on Students
Introduction: The Continuum of School's Socializing Power
Morality: The Marginalization of Religious Schooling
Shaping Identities: Gender and Race
School Effects: Cognitive, Social, and Political
12. The Limits of School Socialization: Competing Influences on Students
Introduction: Emphasizing Limits
Macro-Level Competitors: Forms of Entrenched Inequality
Common Competitors: The Rise of Youth Cultures
Internal Competitors: Peer Hierarchies
Forms of Opposition and Bullying
The Outer Limits: Crime and Violence
Varying Impacts within Schools: Core versus Extracurricula
Varying Impacts between Schools: Revisiting the Continuum of Socialization
Part Five: Conclusion
13. Future Directions for Canadian Education
Introduction: The Tricky Art of Prediction
The Most Likely Directions for Canadian Education
Finale: The Paradox of a Schooled Society
Glossary
References
Index

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E-book ISBN 9780199024896

Scott Davies is a professor and the Canada Research Chair at the Ontario Institute for Studies (OISE) based out of the University of Toronto. A leading Canadian scholar in the field of sociology of education, he has written numerous journal articles as well as co-authored and co-edited several books.

Neil Guppy is a professor of sociology and the Senior Advisor to the Provosts on Academic Freedom at the University of British Columbia. He has published extensively across the discipline of sociology.

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• Student-friendly writing style explains important and complex concepts in a clear, jargon-free style appropriate for an undergraduate audience.
• Coverage of contemporary topics such as alternative forms of education, faith-based schools, disparity in education, and bullying.
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