| Description |
xii, 147 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Thinking about education series |
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Thinking about education series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-147). |
| Contents |
The Relation of School to Society -- Factory Prep -- An Imaginary Society -- Three Schools of Thought -- Schooling As Socialization and Progress -- The Functionalist Perspective on Schooling -- Functionalism -- Equality of Educational Opportunity -- Educational Reform: Three Cases -- Assimilation, Political Socialization, and Modernization -- Functional Theory, Policy, and Problems -- Historical Impediments and Compensatory Education -- Intellectual and Cultural Impediments -- Poverty -- Problems with Functionalism -- Schooling as Legitimation and Reproduction -- Marxist Theory and Education -- Conflict Theory and Functionalism -- Marxist Theory -- Class Consciousness, False Consciousness, and Hegemony -- Marxism, Neo-Marxism, and Education -- A Neo-Marxist Interpretation of Schooling in Capitalist Society -- The Hidden Curriculum Revisited -- A Theory of Cultural Reproduction -- Student Subculture and the Working Class -- Puzzles, Problems, and Prospects -- Foucault and the Post Modern Move Beyond Marxism -- Feminism as a Form of Conflict Theory -- Interpretation and the Social Function of Schooling -- The Interpretivist Point of View -- An Argument for the Interpretivist Point of View -- The Active Quality of Mind -- The Role of Interpretation in Social Science -- Interpretive Scholarship in Education -- Meaning and Messages; Schooling and Socialization -- Hermeneutics and Interpretation -- Interpretation and Socialization -- Interpretation, Socialization, and Legitimation -- Objections to the Interpretivist Approach. |
| Subject |
Educational sociology.
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| Added Author |
Soltis, Jonas F.
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| ISBN |
0807727857 (pbk.) |
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9780807727850 (pbk.) |
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