Contemporary Theories in the Sociology of Education
Author : Jack Demaine
Publisher : Springer
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 15,6 MB
Release : 1981-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1349165190
Author : Jack Demaine
Publisher : Springer
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 15,6 MB
Release : 1981-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1349165190
Author : Kalervo N. Gulson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 35,84 MB
Release : 2015-06-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 1317816838
This book aims to posit theory as a central component to the study of education and education policy. Providing clear, introductory entries into contemporary critical theories and their take up in education policy studies, the book offers a generative invitation to further reading, thought and exploration. Instead of prescribing how theory should be used, the contributors elaborate on a set of possibilities for researching and critiquing education policy. Education Policy and Contemporary Theory explores examples of how theoretical approaches generate a variety of questions for policy analysis, demonstrating the importance of theory as a necessary and inevitable resource for exploring and contesting various policy realms and dominant discourses. Each chapter provides a short overview of key aspects of a particular theory or perspective, followed by suggestions of methodological implications and recommended readings to extend the outlined ideas. Organized around two parts, the first section focuses on theorists while the second section looks at specific theories and concepts, with the intention that each part makes explicit the connection between theory and methodology in relation to education policy research. Each contribution is carefully written by established and emerging scholars in the field to introduce new scholars to theoretical concepts and policy questions, and to inspire, extend or challenge established policy researchers who may be considering working in new areas.
Author : Scott Appelrouth
Publisher : Pine Forge Press
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 20,87 MB
Release : 2010-11-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 141298761X
Combines the major writings of sociology's core contemporary theorists with a historical and theoretical framework for understanding these works. This text enables students to compare and contrast core concepts and ideas, stresses contemporary applications and examples, and provides a variety of visuals and pedagogical devices.
Author : Criss Jones Díaz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 31,55 MB
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 1107477468
This book addresses sociological theory, highlighting its relevance to policy, curriculum and practice for the pre-service teacher education student.
Author : Tom Whiteside
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 25,96 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Dutch East Indies
ISBN : 9780416558203
Author : Jack Demaine
Publisher :
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 37,84 MB
Release : 1982
Category :
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Author : Jonathan H. Turner
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 50,96 MB
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1483307204
Written by award-winning scholar, Jonathan Turner, Contemporary Sociological Theory covers the range of diversity of theory in nine theoretical traditions, and variants of theoretical approaches in these traditions. The result is a comprehensive review of present-day theorizing in sociology covering functional, evolutionary, ecological, conflict, interactionist, exchange, structuralist, cultural, and critical theories and the major proponents of these theories. Moreover, for each theoretical tradition, it origins are examined in a separate chapter with an eye to how classical theorists influenced the work of key contemporary scholars. This book will serve as a valuable resource for those readers seeking in-depth and comprehensive coverage of contemporary traditions in their historical contexts. Unlike many texts, coverage is comprehensive and deep. The theories and their origins are examined in detail so that readers can fully understand the origins and present profile of theories in present-day sociology. Unlike many texts that skim over theories on the surface, this book seeks to unlock for the reader their underlying structure of each theory. The book is written in a modular format so that theories and traditions can be examined in any order, and in many diverse combinations. If desired, only the contemporary theories can be read without attention to their historical contexts, or the reverse is true if readers want to understand the historical origins of a particular theoretical tradition. Since Jonathan Turner is an active theorist in his own right, he brings to the book an appreciation of how theories are created as an insider rather than as only a commentator on theory. As such, he is able to bring out the underlying assumptions, structure, and form of a theory in new and interesting ways for casual readers and scholars alike.
Author : Steven Loyal
Publisher : Sage Publications Limited
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 28,35 MB
Release : 2020-11-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529725742
Introduces readers to the most important thinkers and schools of thought in contemporary sociological theory - from Parsons and Merton to the Frankfurt School to Foucault, Bourdieu, Giddens and Hochschild - locating each thinker within their own social, political and historical context and helping readers use these ideas to understand the contemporary world.
Author : Peter Kivisto
Publisher : Pine Forge Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 37,95 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1412978157
Illuminating Social Life has enjoyed increasing popularity with each edition. It is the only book designed for undergraduate teaching that shows today's students how classical and contemporary social theories can be used to shed new light on such topics as the internet, the world of work, fast food restaurants, shopping malls, alcohol use, body building, sales and service, and new religious movements.A perfect complement for the sociological theory course, it offers 13 original essays by leading scholars in the field who are also experienced undergraduate theory teachers. Substantial introductions by the editor link the applied essays to a complete review of the classical and modern social theories used in the book.
Author : Jeanne Ballantine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,92 MB
Release : 2015-07-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 1317348508
Putting Sociology to Work; Chapter 4 Gender, Race, and Class: Attempts to Achieve Equality of Educational Opportunity; Gender and Equality of Educational Opportunity; Class, Race, and Attempts to Rectify Inequalities in Educational Opportunity; Integration Attempts; Educational Experience of Selected Minorities in the United States; Improving Schools for Minority Students; Summary; Putting Sociology to Work; Chapter 5 The School as an Organization; The Social System of the School; Goals of the School System; The School as an Organization.