The structure of schooling : readings in the sociology of education / editors, Richard Arum, Irenee R. Beattie, Karly Ford.

Includes bibliographical references.

The "rationalization" of education and training / Max Weber -- Social and cultural mobility / Pitirim Sorokin -- Sponsored and contest mobility and the school system / Ralph H. Turner -- Status attainment processes / Archibald O. Haller and Alejandro Portes -- Human Capital / Gary S. Becker -- Cultural capital : allusions, gaps, and glissandos in recent theoretical developments / Michèle Lamont and Annette Lareau -- Schools, families and communities / James Coleman and Thomas Hoffer -- The first element of morality : the spirit of discipline / Émile Durkheim -- The school and the community / Willard Waller -- Functional and conflict theories of educational stratification / Randall Collins -- Beyond the educational frontier : the great American dream freeze / Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis -- The chosen ones / Peter Cookson and Caroline Hodges Persell -- Trust in schools : a core resource for school reform / Anthony S. Bryk and Barbara Schneider -- Racial segregation and resource inequality -- Equality of educational opportunity : the Coleman Report / James Coleman ... [et al.] -- The effects of high schools on their students / Christopher S. Jencks and Marsha D. Brown -- Brown at 50 : King's dream or Plessy's nightmare? / Gary Orfield and Chungmei Lee -- The nature of schooling / Doris R. Entwisle, Karl L. Alexander, and Linda Olson -- Tracking : from theory to practice / Maureen Hallinan -- Is ability grouping equitable? / Adam Gamoran -- The distribution of knowledge / Jeannie Oakes -- Persisting barriers : changes in educational opportunitites in thirteen countries / Hans-Peter Blossfeld and Yossi Shavit -- Elements of a culture / Paul Willis -- Invisible inequality : social class and childrearing in black families and white families / Annette Lareau -- Exceptions to the rule : upwardly mobile white and Mexican American high school girls / Julie Bettie -- Black students' school success : coping with the "burden of 'acting white'" / Signithia Fordham and John U. Ogbu -- 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 -- Straddling boundaries : identity, culture, and school / Prudence L. Carter -- America's next achievement test : closing the black-white test score gap / Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips -- Race in the schoolyard : negotiating the color line in classrooms and communities / Amanda Lewis -- Shades of white : white kids and racial identity in high schools / Pamela Perry -- The new second generation : segmented assimilation and its variants / Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou -- Boys and girls together... but mostly apart / Barrie Thorne -- Teaching and "women's work" : a comparative and historical analysis / Michael Apple -- Rewriting race and gender high school lessons : second-generation Dominicans in New York City / Nancy Lopez -- "Dude, you're a fag" : adolescent masculinity and the fag discourse / C.J. Pascoe -- The adolescent culture / James Coleman -- Resistance as a social drama : a study of change-oriented encounters / Daniel A. McFarland -- Testing the theory : rampage - the social roots of school shootings / Katherine Newman -- Hooking up : sex, dating, and relationships on campus / Kathleen Bogle -- College life through the eyes of students / Mary Grigsby -- Do employers really need more educated youth? / James E. Rosenbaum and Amy Binder -- The effects of education as an institution / John W. Meyer -- Community colleges and the American social order / Stephen Brint and Jerome Karabel -- An institutional perspective on schools / John Chubb and Terry Moe -- Judging school discipline : a crisis of moral authority / Richard Arum -- Creating a class : college admissions and the education of elites / Mitchell Stevens -- English-only triumphs, but the costs are high / Alejandro Portes -- Charter schools and the public good / Linda A. Renzulli and Vincent J. Roscigno -- Contentious curricula : afrocentrism and ceationism in American public schools / Amy Binder -- Education research that matters : influence, scientific rigor, and policy making / Pamela Barnhouse Walters and Annette Lareau.