This Major Work addresses the lack of consolidation of knowledge in the field, drawing on a wide range of specialisms and so allowing researchers to ′see′ the field clearly, and understand its development over time.

VOLUME ONE: Theories and Methodologies in Use On Education and Society - Émile Durkheim The Sociology of Education - Jean Floud and A.H. Halsey Functional and Conflict Theories of Educational Stratification - Randall Collins Michel Foucault on Education: A Preliminary Theoretical Overview - Roger Deacon The Forms of Capital - Pierre Bourdieu Understanding Structure and Agency - Sharon Gewirtz and Alan Cribb The Effects of Education as an Institution - John W. Meyer Weber on Education and Its Administration: Prospects for Leadership in a Rationalized World - Eugenie Samier` Working-Class Families and the New Secondary Education - R.W. Connell The Geography of Inequality: Why Separate Means Unequal in American Public Schools - John R. Logan, Elisabeta Minca and Sinem Adar Constructing the Sociology of Education as a Unique Discipline: The Cases of Mainland China and Taiwan - Chang, J. and Renjie, Z. Intersectionality, Critical Race Theory, and the Primacy of Racism: Race, Class, Gender, and Disability in Education? - David Gillborn Diminishing the Divisions among Us: Reading and Writing across Difference in Theory and Method in the Sociology of Education - Lois Weis, Heather Jenkins and Amy Stich Renewing Sociology of Education? Knowledge Spaces, Situated Enactments, and Sociological Practice in a World on the Move - Terri Seddon Teachers’ Work: Institutional Isomorphism and Cultural Variation in the US, Germany and Japan - Gerald K. Le Tendre, David P. Baker, Motoko Akiba, Brian Goesling and Alex Wiseman VOLUME TWO: Politics and Policy Promoting Educational Reforms in Weak States: The Case of Radical Policy Discontinuity in Peru - Maria Balarin New Philanthropy, New Networks and New Governance in Education - Stephen J. Ball Policy Spaces, Mobile Discourses, and the Definition of Educated Identities - Jason Beech Politics, Markets and the Organization of Schools - John E. Chubb and Terry M. Moe Specifying Globalization Effects on National Policy: A Focus on the Mechanisms - Roger Dale What Is Enlightenment? - Foucault, M. Consumption, Personalisation and Education Policy - David Hartley The Knowledge Society and Global Dynamics in Education Politics - Anja P. Jacobi Educational Evaluation: A Basis for, or a Legitimation of, Educational Policy - Ulf P. Lundgren Policy Inroads Undermining Women in Education - Catherine Marshall and Michelle Young Reimagining Attraction and ‘Borrowing’ in Education: Introducing a Political Production Model - Jeremy Rappleye Decolonizing the Evidence-based Education and Policy Movement: Revealing the Colonial Vestiges in Educational Policy, Research, and Neoliberal Reform - Riyad Ahmed Shahjahan Traveling Policies: Hijacked in Central Asia - Iveta Silova The Capitalist State and Public Policy Formation ­– Framework for a Political Sociology of Educational Policy Making - Carlos Alberto Torres The Fabrications and Travels of a Knowledge-Policy Instrument - Luis Miguel Carvalho Schooling in Capitalist America Revisited - Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis VOLUMETHREE: Equalities & Identities Cherokee School Society and the Intercultural Classroom - Robert Dumont, Jr. and Murray L. Wax Gender Inequality in Education: Accounting for Women′s Subordination - Nelly P. Stromquist New Modes of Reproducing Social Inequality in Education: The Changing Role of Parents, Teachers, Schools and Educational Policies - Agnès van Zanten Two Paths to Inequality in Educational Outcomes: Family Background and Educational Selection in the United States and Norway - Liza Reisel Social Class and Educational Attainment: A Comparative Study of England, Wales, and Scotland - Lindsay Paterson and Cristina Iannelli Privatization Reform and Inequality of Educational Opportunity: The Case of Chile - Florencia Torche Excluding the Included: A Reconsideration of Inclusive Education - Roger Slee and Julie Allan Race, Nation and Education: An Overview of British Attempts to ‘Manage Diversity’ Since the 1950s - Farzana Shain Internationalisation of Higher Education in South Korea: Reality, Rhetoric, and Disparity in Academic Culture and Identities - Terri Kim Fields and Institutional Strategy: Bourdieu on the Relationship between Higher Education, Inequality and Society - Rajani Naidoo Student Self-Formation in International Education - Simon Marginson The Aftermath of Race: The Politics and Perils of Theorizing Racial Identities in Education in the Age of Information - Cameron McCarthy Why Ethnic Minority Children Are More Likely to Drop Out of School: A Cultural Capital Perspective–Evidence from Ethnic Minority Rural Communities in the Northwest - Sun Bacai and Xu Jingjian Poverty, Education, Gender and the Millennium Development Goals: Reflections on Boundaries and Intersectionality - Elaine Unterhalter Atmospheres of Progress in a Data-based School - Matt Finn VOLUMEFOUR: Pedagogies & Institutions Education and College Culture - Marten Shipman The ‘New’ Sociology of Education and the Study of Learning Environments: Prospects and Problems - Lawrence J. Saha The Organizational Structure of the School - William B. Tyler Toward a Theory of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy - Gloria Ladson-Billings The New Work Order and the Australian Schools - Shirley Grundy and Stewart Bonser Literacy and Pedagogy in Flux: Constructing the Object of Study from a Bernsteinian Perspective - Gemma Moss Knowledge and the Curriculum in the Sociology of Education: Towards a Reconceptualisation - Rob Moore and Michael Young Social Class and Pedagogic Practice - Basil Bernstein Gender Equality, Pedagogy and Citizenship: Affirmative and Transformative Approaches in the UK - Madeleine Arnot On the Reception of Foucauldian Ideas in Pedagogical Research - Helena Ostrowicka The Assembling of Schooling: Discussing Concepts and Models for Understanding the Historical Production of Modern Schooling - Inés Dussel Understanding Learning Cultures - Phil Hodkinson, Gert Biesta and David James Knowledge and Cognition: The Sociology of Knowledge Reconsidered - Gerard Delanty Local Tradition, International Engagement: Challenges for the Asian Professoriate - Anthony Welch Analyzing Schools as Organizations: Long-Term Permanence and Short-Term Change - Charles E. Bidwell A New Professionalism? Challenges and Opportunities - Julia Evetts