Education and Society : An Introduction to Key Issues in the Sociology of Education

Name: Education and Society : An Introduction to Key Issues in the Sociology of Education
Brand: University of California Press

University of California Press

Education and SocietyAn Introduction to Key Issues in the Sociology of Education\nAuthor(s): Thurston Domina, Benjamin G. Gibbs, Lisa Nunn, Andrew Penner\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of California Press, United States\nImprint: University of California Press\nISBN-13: 9780520295582, 978-0520295582\nSynopsis\nDrawing on current scholarship, Education and Society takes students on a journey through the many roles that education plays in contemporary societies. Addressing students own experience of education before expanding to larger sociological conversations, Education and Society helps readers understand and engage with such topics as peer groups, gender and identity, social class, the racialization of achievement, the treatment of immigrant children, special education, school choice, accountability, discipline, global perspectives, and schooling as a social institution. The book prompts students to evaluate how schools organize our society and how society organizes our.