Schools and Societies provides a synthesis of key issues in the sociology of education, focusing on American schools while offering a global, comparative context. Already a standard text in its first edition, this fully revised and updated second edition offers a broader sweep and stronger theoretical foundation, and takes into consideration key developments in education policy and scholarship since the late 1990s. The book is distinguished from others in the f… More >>
Schools and Societies: Second Edition
This book was highly disappointing and uninformed. Firstly, the author seems to have a thin grasp on current understandings of global development, as displayed in chapters 2 & 3 on education in ‘industrialized’ and ‘developing’ worlds.
The book displays inconsistencies in thinking, and many seeming uninformed statments in the chapters on inequality.
I do not recommend this book, except as a way to learn objectively about the topics in education, removing the actual content.
Rating: 2 / 5
I bought this book for a class I took. Its chapters are insightful to understanding the school system and effects on society. However, there is another edition of this same book which is cheaper than this one and is also found on amazon.
Rating: 4 / 5