1st Edition
Academic Distinctions Theory and Methodology in the Sociology of School Knowledge
By James G. Ladwig
Copyright 1996
204 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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Academic Distinctions is the most sustained and rigorous critique of radical sociology of school knowledge and its major figures to date. Using a variety of theoretical lenses to analyze and reconstitute the field--structuralist, poststructuralist and feminist--James Ladwig documents how the so-called "new sociologists of education" lost their theoretical way and failed to realize their educational goals.
Chapter 1 Introduction, James G. Ladwig; Chapter 2 Constructing the Field, James G. Ladwig; Chapter 3 Deconstructing the Field, James G. Ladwig; Chapter 4 Reconstructing the Field, Part ially, James G. Ladwig; Chapter 5 Was the Critique of Positivism a Mistake?, James G. Ladwig; Chapter 6 Wherein Lies the Scientific Rhetoric?, James G. Ladwig; Chapter 7 Constructing a Science with an Attitude, James G. Ladwig;
Biography
James G. Ladwig
"[Ladwig] distinguishes several different tendencies within the 'radical sociology of school knowledge' and suggests their common theoretical and methodological limitations, most notably a marginalizing reliance on non-scientific rhetoric and a reluctance to use available empirical research methods." -- David Livingstone, Curriculum Inquiry
