Schools and Society: A Sociological Approach to Education

Schools and Society: A Sociological Approach to Education, Fifth Edition by Jeanne H. Ballantine and Joan Z. Spade is a comprehensive anthology featuring classical readings on the Sociology of Education, as well as original essays by notable contemporary scholars. Assigned as a main text or a supplement, this fully updated Fifth Edition uses the open systems approach to provide readers with a framework for understanding and analyzing the book s range of topics. The editors, both experienced instructors in this subject, have chosen articles that are highly readable, and that represent the field s major theoretical perspectives, methods, and issues.