Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This book summarizes the body of knowledge about sociology of education and cultural studies as it informs educational research and critical pedagogy. It synthesizes the most relevant work in social and cultural reproduction published in the last three decades in English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese. The authors document and critique the theoretical discussion in developments in both advanced societies and peripheral ones, and link macro-sociological issues with social psychological ones. The book introduces theories of the state to underscore a political sociology of education, and highlights an agenda for theory building, research, and practice in sociology of education.
Synopsis
This book summarizes and critiques theories of social and cultural reproduction as they relate to sociology of education.
Synopsis
Raymond Allen Morrow is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta, Canada. Carlos Alberto Torres is Professor and Assistant Dean for Student Affairs with the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 467-499) and index.
Table of Contents
1. Social theory and education. Metatheoretical foundations. 2. Structural functionalism and systems theories. The functionalist tradition : Parsons and education -- Neofunctionalism and education. 3. Structuralism : neo-Marxist and conflict theories. Structuralism and the logic of reproduction -- Structuralist Marxism : correspondence theories -- Structural conflict theories : culture, class, and domination. 4. The convergence of neo-Gramscian and critical theory. Critical theory and education : from the Frankfurt school to poststructuralism -- The two Gramscis and education : technical competence versus political consciousness. 5. Agency and structure : resistance and reproduction. The recovery of agency : from the British new sociology of education to cultural studies -- Critical pedagogy in the United States : Michael Apple and Henry Giroux. 6. Education, the state, and the logic of reproduction. The capitalist state and educational policy formation -- Education, race, and gender : towards a critical modernist perspective -- Education, the fragmentation of domination, and postmodernism -- The logic of reproduction : summary and conclusions.