School and Society, 5th Edition

This widely used text has been expanded to include the most important issues in contemporary schooling, including:



  • New end-of-chapter sections for Further Reading.

  • New references added to the useful Additional Resources section.


School and Society, Fifth Editionuses realistic case studies, dialogues, and open-ended questions designed to stimulate thinking about problems related to school and society, including curriculum reform, social justice, and competing forms of research. Written in a style that speaks directly to today’s educator, this book tackles such crucial questions as: Do schools socialize students to become productive workers? • Does schooling reproduce social class and pass on ethnic and gender biases? • Can a teacher avoid passing on dominant social and cultural values? • What besides subjects do students really learn in schools?


School and Societyis one of the five books in the highly regarded Teachers College PressThinking About Education Series, now in its Fifth Edition. All of the books in this series are designed to help pre- and in-service teachers bridge the gap between theory and practice.


Praise for Previous Editions!

“I have been surprised and pleased by the relevance of this particular book to the lives and work of my beginning teachers.”

Teaching Education


“[This series] does a masterful job of bringing together the basic issues and teaching methods that should frame social and philosophical foundations curricula.”

Educational Theory


Walter Feinbergis Professor of Educational Policy Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Jonas F. Soltisis William Heard Kilpatrick Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

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School and Society, 5th Edition

This widely used text has been expanded to include the most important issues in contemporary schooling, including:



  • New end-of-chapter sections for Further Reading.

  • New references added to the useful Additional Resources section.


School and Society, Fifth Editionuses realistic case studies, dialogues, and open-ended questions designed to stimulate thinking about problems related to school and society, including curriculum reform, social justice, and competing forms of research. Written in a style that speaks directly to today’s educator, this book tackles such crucial questions as: Do schools socialize students to become productive workers? • Does schooling reproduce social class and pass on ethnic and gender biases? • Can a teacher avoid passing on dominant social and cultural values? • What besides subjects do students really learn in schools?


School and Societyis one of the five books in the highly regarded Teachers College PressThinking About Education Series, now in its Fifth Edition. All of the books in this series are designed to help pre- and in-service teachers bridge the gap between theory and practice.


Praise for Previous Editions!

“I have been surprised and pleased by the relevance of this particular book to the lives and work of my beginning teachers.”

Teaching Education


“[This series] does a masterful job of bringing together the basic issues and teaching methods that should frame social and philosophical foundations curricula.”

Educational Theory


Walter Feinbergis Professor of Educational Policy Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Jonas F. Soltisis William Heard Kilpatrick Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

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This widely used text has been expanded to include the most important issues in contemporary schooling, including:



  • New end-of-chapter sections for Further Reading.

  • New references added to the useful Additional Resources section.


School and Society, Fifth Editionuses realistic case studies, dialogues, and open-ended questions designed to stimulate thinking about problems related to school and society, including curriculum reform, social justice, and competing forms of research. Written in a style that speaks directly to today’s educator, this book tackles such crucial questions as: Do schools socialize students to become productive workers? • Does schooling reproduce social class and pass on ethnic and gender biases? • Can a teacher avoid passing on dominant social and cultural values? • What besides subjects do students really learn in schools?


School and Societyis one of the five books in the highly regarded Teachers College PressThinking About Education Series, now in its Fifth Edition. All of the books in this series are designed to help pre- and in-service teachers bridge the gap between theory and practice.


Praise for Previous Editions!

“I have been surprised and pleased by the relevance of this particular book to the lives and work of my beginning teachers.”

Teaching Education


“[This series] does a masterful job of bringing together the basic issues and teaching methods that should frame social and philosophical foundations curricula.”

Educational Theory


Walter Feinbergis Professor of Educational Policy Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Jonas F. Soltisis William Heard Kilpatrick Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780807771211
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Publication date: 03/11/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Sales rank: 335,264
File size: 239 KB

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Part I The Relation of School to Society 1

Chapter 1 What This Book is About 3

Factory Prep 3

An Imaginary Society 4

Three Schools of Thought 6

The Form of the Book 8

Part II Schooling as Socialization and Progress 11

Chapter 2 The Functionalist Perspective on Schooling 13

Functionalism 13

Equality of Educational Opportunity 18

Educational Reform: Three Cases 19

Assimilation, Political Socialization, and Modernization 22

For Further Inquiry 26

Chapter 3 Functional Theory, Policy, and Problems 27

Historical Impediments and Compensatory Education 28

Intellectual and Cultural Impediments 29

Poverty 32

Problems with Functionalism 34

For Further Inquiry 38

Part III Schooling as Legitimation and Reproduction 39

Chapter 4 Marxist Theory and Education 41

Conflict Theory and Functionalism 41

Marxist Theory 44

Class Consciousness, False Consciousness, and Hegemony 47

Marxism, Neo-Marxism, and Education 50

A Neo-Marxist Interpretation of Schooling in Capitalist Society 53

For Further Inquiry 55

Chapter 5 The Hidden Curriculum Revisited 57

A Theory of Cultural Reproduction 60

Student Subculture and the Working Class 62

Puzzles, Problems, and Prospects 66

Foucault and the Post Modern Move Beyond Marxism 68

Feminism as a Form of Conflict Theory 71

For Further Inquiry 75

Part IV Interpretation and the Social Function of Schooling 77

Chapter 6 The Interpretivist Point of View 79

An Argument for the Interpretivist Point of View 82

The Active Quality of Mind 84

The Role of Interpretation in Social Science 85

Interpretive Scholarship in Education 91

For Further Inquiry 94

Chapter 7 Meaning andMessages; Schooling and Socialization 96

Hermeneutics and Interpretation 100

Interpretation and Socialization 102

Interpretation, Socialization, and Legitimation 104

Objections to the Interpretivist Approach 107

What Is at Stake? 108

Part V Cases and Disputes 111

Chapter 8 Cases and Disputes 113

Student Government 115

The Roots of School Failure 116

The Hidden Curriculum 118

National Reports on Education 119

The Geography Lesson 120

Resource Allocation 121

College or Workforce? 123

Individual Differences and Equal Opportunity 125

Social Reproduction 126

Equal but Separate 128

Education for Work 129

Workforce School 130

Class Bias? 131

Social Studies 132

Interpretation and Ethical Relativism 133

The New Student 134

Mainstream or Not? 135

Social Conditioning and Freedom 136

Interpretation and Epistemic Relativism 138

A Third World School System 139

The Curriculum 140

Notes 143

Additional Resources 147

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