Preface. Introduction; M.T. Hallinan. I: Theoretical and Methodological Orientations. 1. A Social Psychological Approach to the Study of Schooling; C.E. Bidwell. 2. The Organizational Context of Teaching and Learning; A. Gamoran, et al. 3. Linkages Between Sociology of Race and Sociology of Education; M.T. Hallinan. 4. Research and Theory on Equality and Education; K. Lynch. 5. Structural Effects in Education: A History of an Idea; R. Dreeben. 6. School Effects: Theoretical and Methodological Issues; A.B. Sorensen, S.L. Morgan. II: Development and Expansion of Education. 7. Development and Education; C. Chabbott, F.O. Ramirez. 8. The Content of the Curriculum: An Institutional Perspective; E.H. McEneaney, J.W. Meyer. 9. Comparative and Historical Patterns of Education; R. Collins. 10. School Expansion, School Reform, and the Limits of Growth; P.B. Walters. III: The Study of Access to Schooling. 11. Equitable Classrooms in a Changing Society; E.G. Cohen. 12. Connecting Home, School, and Community: New Directions for Social Research; J.L. Epstein, M.G. Sanders. 13. The Variable Construction of Educational Risk; J.G. Richardson. IV: The Study of School Organization. 14. School Size and the Organization of Secondary Schools; V.E. Lee. 15. Comparative Sociology of Classroom Processes, School Organization and Achievement; D.P. Baker, G.K. LeTendre. 16. Social Systems and Norms: A Coleman Approach; B. Schneider.17. Values, Control, and Outcomes in Public and Private Schools; C.H. Persell. V: The Study of School Outcomes. 18. Interactions between High Schools and Labor Markets; J.E. Rosenbaum, S.A. Jones. 19. Vocational Secondary Education, Tracking, and Social Stratification; Y. Shavit, W. Muller. 20. Transition from School to Work in Comparative Perspective; A.C. Kerckhoff. 21. Pathways from School to Work in Germany and the US; J.T. Mortimer, H. Kruger. 22. The Effects of Schooling on Individual Lives; A.M. Pallas. VI: Policy Implications of Research in Sociology of Education. 23. Accountability in Education; T.B. Hoffer. 24. The Fit and Misfit of Sociological Research and Education Policy; D.L. Stevenson.
