The chapter at hand provides a sociological account of the analysis of schools and classrooms and their effects on selected educational outcomes. I draw on the social production function approach to unveil the idealized educational motives of students, their parents and their teachers. This allows me to present a theory-based synthesis of the state of the art in conceptually adjacent, but empirically surprisingly unrelated areas of research. A review of previous empirical research supports the theoretical argument that both school and classroom context may frame educational actors’ goal–mean relations, while framing effects might be heterogeneous for individuals with different psycho-social dispositions. I conclude with several suggestions for future analyses of educational contexts, their interrelation to one another, and their interaction with individual characteristics. In particular, a stronger interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of educational contexts is encouraged.
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Front Matter
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Part I: Introduction
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Part II: Theoretical Foundations
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Part III: Methodological Problems
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Part IV: Modernization And Educational Expansion
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Part V: Organization of Education and Outcomes
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Part VI: Benefits of Education and Returns To education
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Part VII: Migration, Education and Social Integration
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Part VIII: Policy Implications of Research in The sociology of Education
