Preface Acknowledgments Introduction I. Theoretical and Historical Perspectives A. Status Attainment and Social Mobility 1. The Rationalization of Education and Training - Max Weber 2. Social and Cultural Mobility - Pitirim Sorokin 3. Sponsored and Contest Mobility and the School System - Ralph H. Turner 4. Status Attainment Processes - Archibald O. Haller and Alejandro Portes B. Human Capital, Cultural Capital and Social Capital 5. Human Capital - Gary S. Becker 6. Cultural Capital: Allusions, Gaps, and Glissandos in Recent Theoretical Developments - Michele Lamont and Annette Lareau 7. Schools, Families and Communities - James Coleman and Thomas Hoffer C. Changing Theories of Education Systems 8. The First Element of Morality: The Spirit of Discipline - Emile Durkheim 9. The School and the Community - Willard Waller 10. Functional and Conflict Theories of Educational Stratification - Randall Collins 11. Beyond the Educational Frontier: The Great American Dream Freeze - Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis Part I Discussion Questions II. Stratification Within and Between Schools A. School Cultures 12. The Chosen Ones - Peter Cookson and Caroline Hodges Persell 13. Trust in Schools: A Core Resource for School Reform - Anthony S. Bryk and Barbara Schneider B. Racial Segregation and Resource Inequality 14. Equality of Educational Opportunity: The Coleman Report - James Coleman, Ernest Campbell, Carol Hobson, James McPartland, Alexander Mood, Frederic Weinfeld, and Robert York 15. The Effects of High Schools on Their Students - Christopher S. Jencks and Marsha D. Brown 16. Brown at 50: King's Dream or Plessy's Nightmare? - Gary Orfield and Chungmei Lee 17. The Nature of Schooling - Doris R. Entwisle, Karl L. Alexander, and Linda Olson C. Tracking 18. Tracking: From Theory to Practice - Maureen Hallinan 19. Is Ability Grouping Equitable? - Adam Gamoran 20. The Distribution of Knowledge - Jeannie Oakes Part II Discussion Questions III. Class, Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality A. Class 21. Persisting Barriers: Changes in Educational Opportunitites in Thirteen Countries - Hans-Peter Blossfeld and Yossi Shavit 22. Elements of a Culture - Paul Willis 23. Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families - Annette Lareau 24. Exceptions to the Rule: Upwardly Mobile White and Mexican American High School Girls - Julie Bettie B. Race & Ethnicity 25. Black Students' School Success: Coping With the Burden of 'Acting White' - Signithia Fordham and John U. Ogbu 26. It's Not a Black Thing: Understanding the Burden of Acting White and Other Dilemmas of High Achievement - Karolyn Tyson, William Darity, Jr., and Domini R. Castellino 27. Straddling Boundaries: Identity, Culture, and School - Prudence L. Carter 28. America's Next Achievement Test: Closing the Black-White Test Score Gap - Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips 29. Race in the Schoolyard: Negotiating the Color Line in Classrooms and Communities - Amanda Lewis 30. Shades of White: White Kids and Racial Identity in High Schools - Pamela Perry 31. The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and Its Variants - Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou C. Gender & Sexuality 32. Boys and Girls Together... But Mostly Apart - Barrie Thorne 33. Teaching and Women's Work: A Comparative and Historical Analysis - Michael Apple 34. Rewriting Race and Gender High School Lessons: Second-Generation Dominicans in New York City - Nancy Lopez 35. Dude, You're a Fag: Adolescent Masculinity and the Fag Discourse - C.J. Pascoe Part III Discussion Questions IV. Student Behavior and Adolescent Subcultures 36. The Adolescent Culture - James Coleman 37. Resistance as a Social Drama: A Study of Change-Oriented Encounters - Daniel A. McFarland 38. Testing the Theory: Rampage - The Social Roots of School Shootings - Katherine Newman 39. Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus - Kathleen Bogle 40. College Life Through the Eyes of Students - Mary Grigsby Part IV Discussion Questions V. The Organizational Environment A. The Cultural and Institutional Environment 41. Do Employers Really Need More Educated Youth? - James E. Rosenbaum and Amy Binder 42. The Effects of Education as an Institution - John W. Meyer 43. Community Colleges and the American Social Order - Stephen Brint and Jerome Karabel 44. An Institutional Perspective on Schools - John Chubb and Terry Moe 45. Judging School Discipline: A Crisis of Moral Authority - Richard Arum 46. Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites - Mitchell Stevens B. Education Policy and School Reform 47. English-Only Triumphs, But the Costs Are High - Alejandro Portes 48. Charter Schools and the Public Good - Linda A. Renzulli and Vincent J. Roscigno 49. Contentious Curricula: Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public Schools - Amy Binder 50. Education Research That Matters: Influence, Scientific Rigor, and Policy Making - Pamela Barnhouse Walters and Annette Lareau Part V Discussion Questions
