Handbook of

Theory and Research

for the
Sociology of Education
EDITED BY JOHN G. RICHARDSON

GREENWOOD PRESS
New York Westport, Connecticut London

Contents

TABLES AND FIGURES

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Introduction
John G. Richardson

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Part I History and the Social Origins of Education

1 Social Origins of Educational Systems
Margaret S. Archer

2 Historical Sequences and the Origins of Common Schooling in

the American States
John G. Richardson

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3 World Culture and the Institutional Development of

Mass Education
John Boli and Francisco O. Ramirez

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Part II Socialization Processes and Educational Outcomes

4 Family Position, Peer Influences, and Schooling
Alan C. Kerckhoff
5 Classroom Structure and the Social Construction of Ability
Carl H. Simpson and Susan J. Rosenholtz
6 Institutional Career Structures and the Social Construction
of Ability
James E. Rosenbaum
7 Special Education and Social Control
Carl D. Milofsky

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Part III Educational Transmission and Reproduction

8 On Pedagogic Discourse
Basil Bernstein

9 The Forms of Capital

Pierre Bourdieu
Part IV

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Methodological and Theoretical Issues in the Sociology

of Education

10 Education, Social Mobility, and Sociological Theory

Raymond Boudon

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11 Methodological Issues in the Study of Educational Change

Richard Rubinson and John Ralph

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12 Educational Effects: Issues in Conceptualization

and Measurement
Barbara Heyns
13 Types of Explanation in the Sociology of Education
John W. Meyer

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NAME INDEX

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SUBJECT INDEX

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CONTRIBUTORS

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Tables and Figures

Table 2.1 Regional and Interactional Effects on Private

Nonsectarian Schools1895

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Table 2.2 Regional Effects on the Number of Public High

Schools1880, 1895

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Table 3.1 Models of the Institutional Structure of European Society

in the Fifteenth and Twentieth Centuries

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Table 5.1 Mean Ability Self Ratings, by Grade and School

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Table 5.2 Pearson R's between Self Ratings, by Grade and School

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Table 5.3 Linkages between Ability and Effort, by Grade and

School
Table 5.4 Mean Level and Generalization of Peer Ratings, by
Grade and School

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Table 10.1 Educational Level Attained as a Function of Social Class

Background and Period (fictitious data)

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Table 10.2 Jobs Compete for Candidates and Candidates for Jobs at
Two Time Periods (fictitious data)

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Table 10.3 Two Fictitious Mobility Tables Showing That More

Equality of Educational Opportunity Can Have No
Influence on the Structure of Mobility

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Table 10.4 Two Fictitious Mobility Tables with Alternative

Assumptions on Educational Development

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Figure 1. Genealogical Development of Concepts in the Sociology of

Education
Figure 4.1 Schematic Model of the Educational Attainment Process

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Tables and Figures

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Pedagogic Practice
Orderings of the Pedagogic Device
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A Model of Official Pedagogic Discourse
Relations of Official Pedagogic Discourse and Elaborated
Codes
Figure 8.5 Agents of Symbolic Control
Figure 8.6 Agencies of Symbolic Control
Figure 8.7 Relevant Meanings and Forms of Their Realization

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