Schools and Society - Ballantine, Jeanne H.; Spade, Joan Z.; Stuber, Jenny M.
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This comprehensive anthology features classical readings on the Sociology of Education, as well as current, original essays by notable contemporary scholars. Assigned as a main text or a supplement, this fully updated Sixth Edition uses the open systems approach to provide readers with a framework for understanding and analyzing the book's range of topics. Jeanne H. Ballantine, Joan Z. Spade, and new co-editor Jenny M. Stuber, all experienced instructors in this subject, have chosen articles that are highly readable, and that represent the field's major theoretical perspectives, methods, and…mehr

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This comprehensive anthology features classical readings on the Sociology of Education, as well as current, original essays by notable contemporary scholars. Assigned as a main text or a supplement, this fully updated Sixth Edition uses the open systems approach to provide readers with a framework for understanding and analyzing the book's range of topics. Jeanne H. Ballantine, Joan Z. Spade, and new co-editor Jenny M. Stuber, all experienced instructors in this subject, have chosen articles that are highly readable, and that represent the field's major theoretical perspectives, methods, and issues. The Sixth Edition includes twenty new selections and five revisions of original readings and features new perspectives on some of the most contested issues in the field today, such as school funding, gender issues in schools, parent and neighborhood influences on learning, growing inequality in schools, and charter schools.
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Jeanne H. Ballantine is Professor of Sociology at Wright State University. She has been teaching sociology for more than 30 years with a mission to introduce the uninitiated to the field and to help students see the usefulness and value in sociology. Jeanne has been active in the teaching movement, shaping curriculum, writing and presenting research on teaching, and offering workshops and consulting in regional, national, and international forums. She is a Fulbright Senior Scholar and serves as a Departmental Resources Group consultant and evaluator. In 1986, the American Sociological Association's Section on Undergraduate Education (now called the Section on Teaching and Learning in Sociology) recognized her with the Hans O. Mauksch Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching of Sociology. In 2004, she was honored by the American Sociological Association with its Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award. In 2010, the North Central Sociological Association awarded her the J. Milton Yinger Award for Distinguished Career in Sociology. Jeanne is also co-author of two introductory sociology texts with SAGE, Our Social World and Our Social World Condensed. Joan Z. Spade is Professor Emeriti of sociology at The College at Brockport, State University of New York. She received her PhD from University at Buffalo, State University of New York, her MA from the University of Rochester, and her BA from State University of New York at Geneseo. In addition to courses on gender, Joan taught courses on education, family, research methods, and statistics. She published articles on rape culture in college fraternities and on work and family, including women's and men's orientations toward work. She has also coedited two books on education and published articles on education, including research on tracking, and gender and education. Joan is active in Sociologists for Women in Society, Eastern Sociological Society, and the American Sociological Association. She is also co-author of a gender anthology for SAGE, The Kaleidoscope of Gender. Jenny M. Stuber is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of North Florida. She received her a PhD in Sociology from Indiana University. Jenny's research focuses on the cultural aspects of social class inequality and how people understand, enact, and use social class in their everyday lives. Her book, Inside the College Gates: How Class and Culture Matter in Higher Education (Lexington Books, 2011), investigates the how social class and first-generation status shape how students navigate the college environment, focusing specifically on their social interactions and extra-curricular involvement. Her research has also appeared in Sociological Forum, The Journal of Contemporary Sociology, The International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, and Teaching in Higher Education. Jenny is an Editorial Board member for two journals, Teaching Sociology and Sociology of Education, and a Council member for the Sociology of Education section in the American Sociological Association.