Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Foreword - Larry V. Hedges and Barbara Schneider
Introduction: The Social Organization of Schools - Barbara Schneider
Part I. The Relationship Between Sociology and the Study of Education
Chapter 1. A Sociological Agenda for Research on Education - Charles E. Bidwell
Chapter 2. Ecosystems and the Structuring of Organizations - W. Richard Scott
Part II. Teaching as a Profession
Chapter 3. Teaching and the Competence of Occupations - Robert Dreeben
Chapter 4. The Prospects for Teaching as a Profession - Susan Moore Johnson
Chapter 5. The Anomaly of Educational Organizations and the Study of Organizational Control - Richard M. Ingersoll
Chapter 6. Professional Community by Design: Building Social Capital Through Teacher Professional Development - Adam Gamoran, Ramona Gunter, and Tona Williams
Part III. The Microsociology of Schools and Classrooms
Chapter 7. The Normative Culture of a School and Student Socialization - Maureen T. Hallinan
Chapter 8. Why Work When You Can Play? Dynamics of Formal and Informal Organization in Classrooms - Daniel A. McFarland
Chapter 9. School Organization, Curricular Structure, and the Distribution and Effects of Instruction for Tenth-Grade Science - Robert A. Petrin
Chapter 10. Subgroups as Meso-Level Entities in the Social Organization of Schools - Kenneth A. Frank and Yong Zhao
Part IV. Change in Social Organizations
Chapter 11. The Cross-National Context of the Gender Gap in Math and Science - Catherine Riegle-Crumb
Chapter 12. Organizational Coupling, Control, and Change: The Role of Higher-Order Models of Control in Educational Reform - Christopher B. Swanson
Chapter 13. Achievement and Equity - Chandra Muller and Kathryn S. Schiller
Chapter 14. School Transition Programs in Organizational Context: Problems of Recruitment, Coordination, and Integration - Kathryn S. Schiller
Chapter 15. Mobilizing Community Resources to Reform Failing Schools - Lori Diane Hill
References
Index