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Research Handbook on the Sociology of Education
Edited by Rolf Becker
Presenting original contributions from the key experts in the field, the Research Handbook on the Sociology of Education explores the major theoretical, methodological, empirical and political challenges and pressing social questions facing education in current times.
Handbook
- Published in print:
- 30 Aug 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781788110419
- eISBN:
- 9781788110426
- Pages:
- c 624
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- Research Handbook on the Sociology of Education
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: Key challenges for the sociology of education: theoretical, methodological, and empirical issues
- Chapter 2: A sociological perspective on education as a lifelong process
- Chapter 3: How does education depend on social origin?
- Chapter 4: The rational choice paradigm in the sociology of education
- Chapter 5: Multiple social contexts of education: systematic commonalities, differences and interrelations
- Chapter 6: The problem of meritocracy: the belief in achievement, credentials and justice
- Chapter 7: Measurement of skills and achievement: a critical assessment of theoretical and methodological concepts
- Chapter 8: Longitudinal data analysis in the sociology of education: key concepts and challenges
- Chapter 9: Experiments in the sociology of education: causal inference and estimating causal effects in sociological research on education
- Chapter 10: Educational expansion and inequalities: how did inequalities by social originand gender decrease in modern industrial societies?
- Chapter 11: Gender segregation in education
- Chapter 12: How do educational systems affect social inequality of educational opportunities? The role of tracking in comparative perspective
- Chapter 13: Early educational inequality: growing up in different learning environments
- Chapter 14: The equalizing effect of schools and its limits
- Chapter 15: Educational institutions and inequalities in educational opportunities
- Chapter 16: Vocational education and training in comparative perspective
- Chapter 17: Vertical and horizontal stratification in higher education
- Chapter 18: Still a safety net? Revisiting the role of vocational education and training in school-to-work transitions in Europe
- Chapter 19: The social structure of schools and classrooms
- Chapter 20: Teachers: their characteristics and their role in the education system
- Chapter 21: Disability and inequality in educational opportunities from a life course perspective
- Chapter 22: Returns to adult education and inequality: a life course perspective
- Chapter 23: Socio-emotional skills in education and beyond: recent evidence and future research avenues
- Chapter 24: Returns to education in the life course
- Chapter 25: Knowledge capital and economic growth
- Chapter 26: Ethnic inequality in educational attainment
- Chapter 27: Language assimilation and the education of immigrant students
- Chapter 28: Large-scale assessments of educational systems
- Chapter 29: Simulation of outcomes of educational policies and programmes
- Chapter 30: Beyond schools: the social embeddedness of educational inequality
- Index
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Chapter 1: Key challenges for the sociology of education: theoretical, methodological, and empirical issues
Rolf Becker
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- Published:
- 30 August 2019
- Category:
- Handbook Chapter
- Pages:
- 2–16 (15 total)
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Social and Political Science 2019
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- Research Handbook on the Sociology of Education
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: Key challenges for the sociology of education: theoretical, methodological, and empirical issues
- Chapter 2: A sociological perspective on education as a lifelong process
- Chapter 3: How does education depend on social origin?
- Chapter 4: The rational choice paradigm in the sociology of education
- Chapter 5: Multiple social contexts of education: systematic commonalities, differences and interrelations
- Chapter 6: The problem of meritocracy: the belief in achievement, credentials and justice
- Chapter 7: Measurement of skills and achievement: a critical assessment of theoretical and methodological concepts
- Chapter 8: Longitudinal data analysis in the sociology of education: key concepts and challenges
- Chapter 9: Experiments in the sociology of education: causal inference and estimating causal effects in sociological research on education
- Chapter 10: Educational expansion and inequalities: how did inequalities by social originand gender decrease in modern industrial societies?
- Chapter 11: Gender segregation in education
- Chapter 12: How do educational systems affect social inequality of educational opportunities? The role of tracking in comparative perspective
- Chapter 13: Early educational inequality: growing up in different learning environments
- Chapter 14: The equalizing effect of schools and its limits
- Chapter 15: Educational institutions and inequalities in educational opportunities
- Chapter 16: Vocational education and training in comparative perspective
- Chapter 17: Vertical and horizontal stratification in higher education
- Chapter 18: Still a safety net? Revisiting the role of vocational education and training in school-to-work transitions in Europe
- Chapter 19: The social structure of schools and classrooms
- Chapter 20: Teachers: their characteristics and their role in the education system
- Chapter 21: Disability and inequality in educational opportunities from a life course perspective
- Chapter 22: Returns to adult education and inequality: a life course perspective
- Chapter 23: Socio-emotional skills in education and beyond: recent evidence and future research avenues
- Chapter 24: Returns to education in the life course
- Chapter 25: Knowledge capital and economic growth
- Chapter 26: Ethnic inequality in educational attainment
- Chapter 27: Language assimilation and the education of immigrant students
- Chapter 28: Large-scale assessments of educational systems
- Chapter 29: Simulation of outcomes of educational policies and programmes
- Chapter 30: Beyond schools: the social embeddedness of educational inequality
- Index