1st Edition

Knowledge, Education, and Cultural Change Papers in the Sociology of Education

Edited By Richard Brown Copyright 1973
424 Pages
by Routledge

424 Pages
by Routledge

424 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1973 Knowledge, Education and Cultural Change surveys the present state of the field of the sociology of education. The book addresses the claim that much of the research in the sociology of education should be extended to issues of wider theoretical significance, the book provides theoretically informed analysis of situations or processes, developing new theoretical... Read more

Editorial Note

Contributors

1. Introduction, Richard Brown

2. Educational Systems and Selected Consequences of Patterns of Mobility and Non-mobility in Industrial Societies: A Theoretical Discussion, Earl Hopper

3. Cultural Reproduction and Social Reproduction, Pierre Bourdieu

4. Structural Problems of Educational Systems in Latin America, Andrew Pearse

5. Education, Urbanization, and Social Change, Bryan Roberts

6. Selections and Survivals: A Sociology of the Ancient Scottish Universities, Andrew MacPherson

7. A Traditional Theme in General Sociology and its Relevance for the Study of Universities, Raymond Jobling

8. Some Problems of Explaining Student Militancy, Paul Hirst

9. On the Contribution of Organizational Analysis to the Study of Educational Institutions, Brian Davies

10. The Informal Social System: An Example of the Limitations of Organizational Analysis, Royston Lambert, Roger Bullock, Spencer Millham

11. Knowledge, Education, and Power, Ioan Davies

12. Curricula and the Social Organization of Knowledge, Michael F.D. Young

13. On the Classification and Framing of Educational Knowledge, Basil Bernstein

Name Index

Subject Index

Biography

Brown, Richard