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231. The Sociology of Educational Inequality (RLE Edu L)

     By William Tyler

     Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

     What is the most significant factor for explaining why some individuals are more successful than others – genetic inheritance, privileged background or luck? Although conventional approaches stress the prime importance of one of these, Tyler argues that such theories fail to deal adequately with...

     Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
232. Doing Sociology of Education (RLE Edu L)

     Edited by Geoffrey Walford

     Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

     This collection of specially commissioned articles exposes the practical and personal influences on the process of doing sociology of education. All of the authors have been involved in conducting well know major research projects, and discuss here the pitfalls and problems, conflicts and...

     Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
233. Life in Public Schools (RLE Edu L)

     By Geoffrey Walford

     Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

     Britain’s public (that is, its major independent) schools have a conspicuous role in the country’s social system, and as a result are the subject of a long-standing political debate. The discussion is generally founded on a stereotyped image of what these school may have been like in the 1950s –...

     Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
234. Privatization and Privilege in Education (RLE Edu L)

     By Geoffrey Walford

     Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

     Can privilege be bought? Arguments have raged over whether private education in the UK is ‘the cement in the wall’ dividing British society, or whether parental choice is, as has also been argued ‘a key component of a free society’. The author here describes the traditional private sector schools,...

     Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
235. Education and the Social Condition (RLE Edu L)

     By Harold Silver

     Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

     This book reviews the educational experience of the 1960s and 1970s and to suggest ways of approaching major contemporary themes such as equality, accountability and standards. The author underlines a nineteenth and twentieth-century sociological tradition in analysing education and covers a range...

     Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
236. English Education and the Radicals (RLE Edu L)

     1780-1850

     By Harold Silver

     Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

     The radicalism of the period from the 1780s to the mid-nineteenth century represented a harnessing of knowledge in protest against injustices and oppression, a pooling of effort to transform society. In this book the author explores the main strains in working and middle-class radicalism over this...

     Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
237. Educational Differences (RLE Edu L)

     By Arthur Jensen

     Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

     Among particular issues discussed in this book are the problems of the cultural disadvantaged, the problems of devising psychological tests which are not biased towards any particular culture, the problems of minority groups of children in education and the relationship between heritability and...

     Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
238. The Social Context of the School (RLE Edu L)

     By John Eggleston

     Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

     In their appearance, schools often seem to be physically separated from their surroundings, cut off from the neighbouring houses and streets by high walls, by playgrounds or playing fields. Within the school, another world seems to exist, with a life of its own – its own routine, dress, rules and...

     Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
239. Class, Ideologies and Educational Futures

     By D Livingstone

     Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

     This book provides a systematic and detailed analysis of class relations in advanced capitalist societies as a basis for understanding both class differences in educational practices and the relative effects of class and other social background factors on public attitudes toward education. Secondly...

     Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
240. The Family, Education and Society (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

     By Frank Musgrove

     Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

     In this provocative study the author challenges many contemporary assumptions about the modern family, the circumstances of home life which lead to academic success and the proper relationship between home and school. The modern family is not ‘in decline’; its history is a success story. It is...

     Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge