March 1-3, 2000
Conference on Sociology and Education
Reading List of Works Suggested by Conference Participants
Alford, Robert R. and Roger Friedland. Powers of Theory. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Arum, Richard. "Do Private School Force Public School to Compete?"American Sociological Review. (1996) 61:29-46.
________. "Schools and Communities: Ecological and Institutional Dimensions." Annual Review of Sociology. Vol. 26, (2000).
Bankston, Carl L. III, Stephen J. Caldas, and Min Zhou. "The Academic Achievement of Vietnamese American Students: Ethnicity as Social Capital." Sociological Focus. (1997) 30:1-16.
Bernstein, Basil. Class, Codes and Control: Theoretical Studies Towards a Sociology of Language. New York: Schocken, 1975.
Binder, Amy. "Token Victories versus Visible Defeats: Public Schools Respond to Afrocentric and Creationist Curriculum Movements." Paper presented to the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, 1998.
Bjork, Lars G. "Substance and Symbolism in the Education Commission Reports." p.119-132 in Rick Ginsberg and David N. Plank (eds) Commissions, Reports, Reforms, and Educational Policy. Praeger: Westport, CT, 1995.
Bourdieu, Pierre. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, translated by Richard Nice. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
Bryk, Anthony, et. al. Charting Chicago School Reform. Westview Press, 1998.
Campion, Edmund (1540-1581). "De homine academico." 1572.
Coleman, James S. "Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital." American Journal of Sociology. (1988) 94: S95-S120.
________. "The Design of Organizations and the Right to Act." Sociological Forum. (1993) 8:527-46.
Cooper, Harris, et al. "The Effects of Summer Vacation on Achievement Test Scores: A Narrative and Meta-Analytic Review." Review of Educational Research. (1996) 66:227-68.
Elmore, Richard. "Getting to Scale with Good Educational Practice." Harvard Education Review. Vol. 66 (Spring 1996).
England, Paul. Comparable Worth: Theories and Evidence. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1992.
Entwisle, Doris R., Karl L. Alexander, and Linda Olson. Children, Schools, and Inequality. Boulder: Westview, 1997.
Espeland, Wendy Nelson and Mitchell L. Stevens. "Commensuration as a Social Process." Annual Review of Sociology. (1998) 24: 313-42.
Fuller, Bruce and Richard Rubinson, eds. The Political Construction of Education. New York: Praeger, 1992.
Furstenberg, Frank F. Jr., et al. Managing to Make it: Urban Families and Adolescent Success. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Grant, Gerald. The World We Created at Hamilton High. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988.
Hallinan, Maureen T. "Diversity effects on student outcomes: social science evidence." Ohio State Law Journal. (1998) 59(3) 733-754.
________. "Sociology and the goal of generalization." Contemporary Sociology. (1998) 27(1):21-24.
________. "Linkages between sociology of race and sociology of education." Chapter 3 in M. Hallinan (ed.) Handbook Of Sociology Of Education. New York: Kluwer/Academic Plenum Publishers, 2000.
Harris, Judith R. The Nurture Assumption. New York: The Free Press, 1998.
Hart, Betty and Todd R. Risley. Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children. Baltimore: Paul Brooks Publishing, 1995.
Hernandez, Arthur E. "Do Role Models Influence Self-Efficacy and Aspirations in Mexican American At-Risk Females?" Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences.
Vol. 17, No. 2, (May 1995) 256-263.
Jarrett, Robin L. "Growing Up Poor: The Family Experiences of Socially Mobile Youth in Low-income African American Neighborhoods." Journal of Adolescent Research. (1995) 10: 111-135.
Jessor, Richard. "Successful Adolescent Development Among Youth in High-Risk Settings." American Psychologist. (1993) 48:117-26.
Lareau, Annette. Home Advantage: Social Class and Parental Intervention in Elementary Education. London: Falmer Press, 1989.
Mehan, Hugh. Learning Lessons: Social Organization in the Classroom. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979.
Newman, John Henry (1801-1890). The Idea of a University. 1852.
Rosenbaum, James E., Takehiko Kariya, Rick Settersten, and Tony Maier. "Market and Network Theories of the Transition from High School to Work: Their Applications to Industrialized Societies." Annual Review of Sociology. (1990) 16: 263-99.
Rumbaut, Rubin G.. "The New Californians: Comparative Research Findings on the Educational Progress of Immigrant Children." In California's Immigrant Children: Theory, Research, and Implications for Educational Policy, edited by R.G. Rumbaut and W.A. Cornelius. La Jolla: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1995.
Sampson, Robert J., Jeffrey D. Morenoff, and Felton Earls. "Beyond Social Capital: Spatial Dynamics of Collective Efficacy for Children." American Sociological Review. (1999) 64:633-660.
Shavit, Yossi, and Walter Muller, eds. From School to Work: A Comparative Study of Educational Qualifications and Occupational Destinations. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Steinberg, Laurence. Beyond the Classroom. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.
Vives, Juan Luis (1492-1540). "De institutione feminae Christianae." 1523.
_______. "De tradendis disciplinis." 1531.
Wells, Amy Stuart and Robert Crain. Stepping Over the Color Line, African-American Students in White Suburban Schools. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
Zhou, Min. "Growing Up American: The Challenge Confronting Immigrant Children and Children of Immigrants." Annual Review of Sociology. (1997) 23:63-95.
Zhou, Min and Carl L. Bankston III. Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1998.
Zhou, Min and Carl L. Bankston. "Social Capital and the Adaptation of the Second Generation: The Case of Vietnamese Youth in New Orleans." International Migration Review. (1994) 28:821-45.