| Description |
vii, 440 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Part I. Classical perspectives -- Education : its nature and role / Emile Durkheim -- The "Rationalization" of education and training the typological position of Confucian education / Max Weber -- Education as a necessity of life / John Dewey -- Education as a social function / John Dewey -- The School as a social organism / Willard Waller |
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Part II. Socialization and learning -- The Second transformation of American secondary education / Martin Trow -- The Contribution of schooling to the learning of norms / Robert Dreeben -- Sociological determinants of academic performance / David E. Lavin -- Classroom effects upon student performance / Sarane S. Boocock -- Educational climates of high schools : their effects and sources / Edward L. McDill, Leo C. Rigsby, and Edmund D. Meyers, Jr. -- The Concept of equality of educational opportunity / James S. Coleman |
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Part III. The School as a formal organization -- The Structure of formally organized socialization settings : some problems of classification / Staton Wheeler -- The School as an organization / Ronald G. Corwin -- The Study of school administration / Charles E. Bidwell -- Bureaucracy and teacher's sense of power / Gerald H. Moeller -- Organizational constraints in the classroom / Philip Jackson -- The School as a mechanism of social differentiation / Aaron V. Cicourel and John I. Kitsuse -- Interrelationship between school districts / Sloan R. Wayland |
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Part IV. The School as an informal system -- The Separate culture of the school / Willard Waller -- Teaching as institutionalized leadership / Willard Waller -- The Teacher and the class : an investigation of the process and functions of indentification / Gerturude McPherson -- The Adolescent subculture and academic achievement / James S. Coleman -- Role conflict and its resolution / Neal Gross, Alexander W. McEachern, and Ward S. Mason |
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Part V. Teaching as an occupation -- Social composition and social class background of teachers / W.W. Charters, Jr. -- The Partial professionalization of elementary teaching / Dan Lortie -- Occuptional commitment and the teaching profession / Blanche Geer -- Occuptional and class differences in social values : a comparison of teachers and social workers / Henry J. Meyer, Eugene Litwak, and Donald Warren -- Pedagogues and power / Alan Rosenthal |
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Part VI. School-community relations -- Teaching styles : parental preferences and professional role definitions / Sam D. Sieber and David E. Wilder -- The School board as an agency of legitimation / Norman D. Kerr -- School desegregation and school decision-making / Robert L. Crain and David Street -- Community schools and social theory : the limits of universalism / Leonard J. Fein -- The School and the family ; linking organizations and external primary groups / Eugene Litwak and Henry J. Meyer |
| Notes |
index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Educational sociology.
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| Author |
Sieber, Sam D.
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Wilder, David E.
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| LC no. |
72080079 |
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