Schools and Societies

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Steven Brint - University of California, Riverside, USA

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Sociology for a New Century Series

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Foundations of Education | Sociology of Education

January 1998 | 368 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

In Schools and Societies the author demonstrates that more than any other major institution, schooling and schools are political, and virtually everyone has opinions to voice and interests to promote. Steven Brint musters a wealth of comparative material to show how schooling around the world is shaped by social forces even as it tries to shape the societies of the future.

Schools as Social Institutions

Schooling in the Industrialized World

Schooling in the Developing World

Schools and the Transmission of Knowledge

Schools and Socialization

Schools and Social Selection

Opportunity

Schools and Social Selection

Inequality

Teaching and Learning in Comparative Perspective

School Reform and the Possibilities of Schooling

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Steven Brint

Steven Brint, (Ph.D. Harvard University), is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of In An Age of Experts: The Changing Role of Professionals in Politics and Public Life (Princeton University Press, 1994). He is also co-author with Jerome Karabel of The Diverted Dream: Community Colleges and the Promise of Educational Opportunity in America, 1900-1980 (Oxford University Press, 1989), which won the American Educational Research Association's "distinguished publication" award in 1991. More About Author

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