( 1983; Becker 1962; 1993; Dougherty 1987; Gamoran 1992; Hallinan and Sorensen 1985; 2000;

ORGANIZATION OF READINGS

1. SOCIOLOGICAL INTERPRETATIONS/THEORIES OF EDUCATION

Becker, Gary S. 1964. Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education. New York: ColumbiaUniversity Press.

Blau, Peter M. and Otis D. Duncan. 1967. The American Occupational Structure. The Free Press.

Bourdieu, Pierre. 1973. Cultural Reproduction and Social Reproduction. In Knowledge, Education, and Cultural Change. Edited by Brown Richard. London: Tavistock.

Coleman, James S. 1988. “Social Capital and the Creation of Human Capital.” American Journal of Sociology 94: S95-120

Collins, Randall. 1979. The Credential Society: A Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification. Vol. ed. Edited by . New York, NY: Academic Press.

Durkheim, Emile. 1977. The Evolution of Educational Thought : Lectures on the Formation and Development of Secondary Education in France.London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. (75-124, 215-226)

Gerth, H. and C. Mills. 1946. From Max Weber.New York: OxfordUniversity Press. (196-264, 416-444)

Parkerson, Donald and Jo Ann Parkerson. 2001. Transitions in American Education: A Social History of Teaching.New York, NY: Routledge Falmer (Intro, 97-124).

Sorokin, Pitirim. 1959. Social and Cultural Mobility.New York, NY: The Free Press.

Turner, Ralph. “Sponsored and Contest Mobility and the School System,” American Sociological Review 25(6): 855-867 (1960).

1. SOCIAL EFFECTS OF EDUCATION
2. Socialization and Social Control

Bowles, Samuel and Herbert Gintis. 1976. Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life. Basic Books. (151-179)

Dreeben, Roberts. 1968. On What Is Learned in School. Addison-Wesley. (28-62)

Parsons, Talcott, "The School Class as a Social System: Some of Its Functions in American Society," Harvard Educational Review 29 (Fall): 297-318 (1959).

Spring, Joel H. 1976. The Sorting Machine.New York: David McKay.

1. Institutional Effects

Clark, B. 1983. The Higher Education System. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Dougherty, Kevin. 1994. The ContradictoryCollege: The Conflicting Origins, Impacts and Futures of the Community College. Albany: SUNY.

Meyer, John and Brian Rowan, "Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony," American Journal of Sociology 83: 340-363 (1977).

1. SCHOOL EFFECTS ON INDIVIDUALS
2. Achievement and Attainment

Apple, Michael W. 1990. Ideology and Curriculum. Vol. . ed. Edited by . New York, NY: Routledge.

Baker, David P. and David L. Stevenson, "Mothers' Strategies for Children's School Achievement: Managing the Transition to High School," Sociology of Education 59 (3): 156-166 (1986).

DiMaggio, Paul, “Cultural Capital and School Success: The Impact of Status Culture Participation on the Grades of U.S. High School Students,”American Sociological Review 47(2): 189-201 (1982).

Eccles, Jacquelynne S. and Rena D. Harold. 1993. “Parent-School Involvement during the Early Adolescent Years.” Teacher’s College Record 94: 568-587.

Fine, Michelle. 1991. Framing Dropouts: Notes on the Politics of an Urban PublicHigh School.New York: SUNY Press.

Heyns, B. 1978. Summer Learning and the Effects of Schooling. New York: Academics. (39-94)

Natriello, G., E. McDill, A. Pallas. 1990. Schooling Disadvantaged Children. New York: Teachers College.

Rumberger, R. “High School Dropouts: A Review of Issues and Evidence.” Review of Educational Research 57(2): 101-121 (1987).

Stevenson, David L. and David P. Baker, "The Family-School Relation and the Child's School Performance," Child Development 58: 1348-1357 (1987).

1. Health/Social Psychological/CompetenciesEffects

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly and Barbara Schneider. 2000. Becoming Adult: How Teenagers Prepare for the World of Work. New York: Basic Books.

Hunter, Jeremy and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, “The Positive Psychology of Interested Adolescents,” Journal of Youth and Adolescents 32: 27-40 (2003).

Mirowsky, John and Catherine Ross. 2003. Education Social Status and Health.New York: Aldine De Gruyter.

Ross, Catherine E. and Beckett A. Broh, “The Roles of Self-Esteem and the Sense of Personal Control in the Academic Achievement Process,” 73 (3): 270-284 (2000).

Ross, Catherine and Marieke Van Willigen, “Education and the Subjective Quality of Life,” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 38 (3): 275-297 (1997).

Ross, Catherine and Chia-ling Wu, “The Links between Education and Health,” American Sociological Review 60 (5): 719-745 (1995).

Shernoff, David, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Barbara Schneider, and Elisa Shernoff, “Student Engagement in High School Classrooms from the Perspective of Flow Theory.” School Psychology Quarterly 18 (2): 158-176 (2003).

William Rau and Ann Durand, “The Academic Ethic and College Grades: Does Hard Work Help Students to "Make the Grade"?”Sociology of Education 73 (1): 19-38 (2000).

1. SOCIAL PSYCH AND DEVELOPMENTAL EFFECTS ON EDUC

Eccles, Jacquelynne S., Carol Midgely, Allan Wigfield, Christy M. Buchanan, David Reuman, Douglas MacIver. 1993. “Development During Adolescence: The Impact of Stage-Environment Fit on Young Adolescents' Experiences in Schools and in Families.” American Psychologist 48: 90-101.

Elder, Glen H., Jr. 1998. “The life Course as Developmental Theory.” Child Development 69: 1-12.

Furstenberg, Frank F. 2000. “The Sociology of Adolescence and Youth in the 1990s: A Critical Commentary.” Journal of Marriage and the Family 62: 896-910.

Kingston, Paul W., Ryan Hubbard, Brent Lapp, Paul Schroeder, and Julia Wilson. 2003. “Why Education Matters.” Sociology of Education 76: 53-70.

Roeser, Robert W., Jacquelynne S. Eccles, and Arnold J. Sameroff. 2000. “School as a Context of Early Adolescents' Academic and Social-Emotional Development: A Summary of Research Findings.” Elementary School Journal 100: 443-471.

1. SCHOOLS AS ORGANIZATIONS
2. Formal Structure

Barr, Rebecca and Robert Dreeben. 1983. How Schools Work.Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Weick, Karl E., "Educational Organizations as Loosely Coupled Systems," Administrative Science Quarterly 21 (1): 1-19 (1976).

Gamoran, Adam. 2003. Transforming Teaching in Math and Science: HowSchools and Districts can Support Change.New York, NY: Teachers College Press. (1-22, 63- 105)

Powell, Arthur G., Eleanor Farrar, and David K. Cohen. 1985. The Shopping MallHigh School : Winners and Losers in the Educational Marketplace. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.

1. Internal Arrangements and the Classroom

Arum, Richard, "Do Private Schools Force Public Schools to Compete?," American Sociological Review 61 (1): 29-46 (1996).

Bryk, Anthony S., Valerie E. Lee, and Peter B. Holland. 1993. CatholicSchools and the Common Good.Cambridge, MA: HarvardUniversity Press.

Coleman, James S. and Thomas Hoffer. 1987. Public and Private Schools: The Impact of Communities.New York: Basic Books.

Gambetta, Diego. 1987. Were They Pushed or Did They Jump? Individual Decision Mechanisms in Education. Edited by Elster, J. and Hernes, G. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press. (7-60)

McDill, Edward L., Gary Natriello, and Aaron M. Pallas, "A Population at Risk: Potential Consequences of Tougher School Standards for Student Dropouts," American Journal of Education 94 (2): 135-81 (1986).

McNeal, Ralph B. Jr., "High School Extracurricular Activities: ‘Closed’ Structures and Stratifying Patterns of Participation," Journal of Educational Research 91(3): 183-191 (1998).

Willis, Paul. 1981. Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs. New York: ColumbiaUniversity Press.

1. EDUCATIONAL STRATIFICATION

Alexander, Karl L., Bruce K. Eckland, and Larry J. Griffin, "The Wisconsin Model of Socioeconomic Achievement: A Replication," American Journal of Sociology 81 (324-342) (1975).

Blau, Peter M. and Otis D. Duncan. 1967. The American Occupational Structure. The Free Press.

Collins, Randall. 1979. The Credential Society: A Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification. Vol. ed. Edited by . New York, NY: Academic Press.

Cookson, Peter W., Jr. and Caroline H. Persell. 1985. Preparing for Power: America's Elite Boarding Schools.New York: Basic Books.

Entwisle, Doris R., Karl L. Alexander, and Linda Steffel Olson. 1997. Children, Schools, and Inequality.Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Kozol, Jonathan. 1991. Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools.New York, NY: Crown.

Muller, Chandra and Kathryn S. Schiller, “Leveling the Playing Field? Students’ Educational Attainment and States’ Performance Testing,” Sociology of Education 73: 196-218 (2000).

Orfield, Gary. 1996. Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown Vs. Board of Education.New York, NY: The New Press.

Orfield, Gary. 2001. Schools More Separate: Consequences of a Decade of Resegregation. New Research Findings.Cambridge, MA: HarvardUniversity Press.

Sorokin, Pitirim. 1959. Social and Cultural Mobility.New York, NY: The Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

1. Race

Ainsworth-Darnell, James and Douglas Downey. 1998. “Assessing Racial/Ethnic Differences in School Performance.” American Sociological Review 63:536-53.

Furstenburg, J., Cook, J. Eccles, J. Elder, Glen and Sameroff, A. 1999. Managing to Make It: Urban Families and Adolescent Success. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Kao G, Tienda M, “Optimism and Achievement: The Educational Performance of Immigrant Youth,” Social Science Quarterly 76 (1): 1-19 (1995).

Ogbu, John. 1978. Minority Education and Caste.New York: Academics.

Ogbu, John. “Racial Stratification and Education in the United States: Why Inequality Persists.” Teachers College Record 96(2): 264-298 (1994).

Mickelson, Roslyn Arlin, “The Attitude-Achievement Paradox Among Black Adolescents,” Sociology of Education 63 (1): 44-61 (1990).

Wells, Amy S. and Robert Crain. 1997. Stepping Over the Color Line: African-American Students in White Suburban Schools.YaleUniversity Press.

1. Class

Carbonaro, William. 1998. “A Little Help from My Friends’ Parents: Intergenerational Closure and Educational Outcomes.” Sociology of Education 71: 295-313.

Fordham, Signithia and John U. Ogbu, "Black Students’ School Success: Coping with the Burden of "Acting White"," The Urban Review 18 (3): 176-206 (1986).

Kerckhoff, Alan C., Richard T. Campbell, and Jerry Trott, "Dimensions of Educational and Occupational Attainment in Great Britain," American Sociological Review 40 (June): 347-364 (1982).

Lareau, Annette. 1989. Home Advantage: Social Class and Parental Intervention in Elementary Education. London: Falmer.

Lareau, Annette and Erin McNamara Horvat. 1999. “Moments of Social Inclusion and Exclusion: Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in Family-School Relationships.” Sociology of Education 72: 37-53.

MacLeod, J. 1987. Ain’t no Makin’ It: Levelled Aspirations in a Low Income Neighborhood. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

McLanahan, Sara and Gary Sandefur. 1994. Growing Up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps.Cambridge, MA: HarvardUniversity Press.

McNeal, Ralph B. Jr., "Parent Involvement as Social Capital: Differential Effectiveness on Science Achievement, Truancy, and Dropping Out," Social Forces 78: 117-144 (1999).

Schneider, Barbara and James S. Coleman. 1993. Parents, Their Children and Schools.Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.

Steinberg, Laurence D., B. Bradford Brown, and Sanford M. Dornbusch. 1996. Beyond the Classroom: WhySchool Reform has Failed and What Parents Need to Do. New York: Simon & Schuster.

1. Gender

Chandra Muller, “Gender Differences in Parental Involvement and Adolescents' Mathematics Achievement,”Sociology of Education 71 (4): 336-356 (1998).

Eder, Donna. 1997. “Sexual Aggression within the School Culture.” Pp. 93-112 in Gender, Equity, and Schooling: Policy and Practice, edited by Barbara Bank and Peter Hall. New York: Garland.

Mickelson, Roslyn Arlin, "Why Does Jane Read and Write so Well? The Anomaly of Women's Achievement," Sociology of Education 62 (1): 47-63 (1989).

Sadker, Myra and David Sadker. 1994. Failing at Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls.New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.

Thorne, Barrie. 1993. Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School. RutgersUniversity Press.

1. CURRICULUM

Gamoran, Adam, "Instructional and Institutional Effects of Ability Groups," Sociology of Education 59 (4): 185-198 (1986).

Gamoran, Adam, "The Variable Effects of High School Tracking," American Sociological Review 57 (6): 812-828 (1992).

Gamoran, Adam and Robert D. Mare, "Secondary School Tracking and Education Inequality: Compensation, Reinforcement, or Neutrality?," American Journal of Sociology 94 (5): 1146-1183 (1989).

Hallinan, Maureen T. "Classroom Racial Composition and Children’s Friendships," Social Forces 59 (1): 225-245 (1982).

Kubitschek, Warren and Maureen Hallinan. 1998. “Tracking and Students' Friendships.” Social Psychology Quarterly 61: 1-15.

Loveless, Tom, ed. 2001. The Great Curriculum Debate: How Should We Teach Reading and Math?Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press. (1-210)

Lucas SR, Berends M, “Sociodemographic Diversity, Correlated Achievement, and De Facto Tracking,” Sociology of Education 75 (4): 328-348 (2002).

Oakes, Jeannie. 1985. Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality.New Haven, CT: YaleUniversity Press. (61-112)

Schneider, B., C.B. Swanson, and C. Riegle-Crumb, “Opportunities for Learning: Course Sequences and Positional Advantages,” Social Psychology of Education2:25-53 (1998).

Stevenson, D.L., K.S. Schiller, and B. Schneider, “Sequences of Opportunities for Learning,” Sociology of Education 67:184-198 (1994).