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Courtney, Steven J. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
This article builds on the established notion that schools are hierarchised through policy, accruing different amounts and types of symbolic capital, by examining how this is reflected in the habitus of the leaders of new, privileged school types. The article uses Bourdieu's concept of hysteresis, or a dislocation between the habitus which…
Descriptors: School Administration, Instructional Leadership, Teacher Attitudes, Personal Narratives
Leaton Gray, Sandra – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
This article discusses how the introduction of technology has led to a fundamental shift in the relationship between education and time. As a means of analysing the extent of such changes on pupils from different backgrounds, I use Bernstein's "conditions for democracy" as a framework for evaluating the impact new understandings of time…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Time, Influence of Technology, Democracy
Oliver, Caroline; Singal, Nidhi – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
Studies of migrant pupils in schools have paid little attention to people with special educational needs and/or disabilities, reflecting a broader normative ableism of existing scholarship. This article, based on a case study of a special school in the east of England, explores the perspectives of staff and new migrants on their experiences. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Migration, Disabilities, Reflection
Cleary, Joseph, Jr. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
This article examines "neoliberalism" inside two American public high schools. The work of one leading critical theorist, Mark Olssen, is explained and examined. Particular attention is paid to Olssen's concepts of "homo economicus" and "manipulatable man." It is concluded that Olssen's theories on neoliberalism…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Semi Structured Interviews, Professional Autonomy, High Schools
von Otter, Cecilia; Stenberg, Sten-Åke – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2015
We analyse the utility of social capital for children's achievement, and if this utility interacts with family human capital and the quality of the parent-child relationship. Our focus is on parental activities directly related to children's school work. Our data stem from a Swedish cohort born in 1953 and consist of both survey and register data.…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Human Capital, Parent Child Relationship, Academic Achievement
Simonová, Natalie; Soukup, Petr – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2015
The main objective of this paper is to show to what extent and why students with the same academic aptitude but different social backgrounds have different odds of entering university. For our analysis, we separated primary and secondary factors of social origin in the formation of educational inequalities. The results show that the primary and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Aspiration, Social Differences, Cultural Capital
Grant, Carl A.; Floch Arcello, Anna; Konrad, Annika M.; Swenson, Mary C. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2014
This article uses Chicago public school closings as a case study for the rise of mayoral control and the decline of democratic participation -- two common responses to stiff competition from global markets -- in urban public schools in the United States. In response to the 2013 Chicago decision to close 50 schools and move 30,000 students, this…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Urban Schools, School Closing, Social Justice
Stromquist, Nelly P. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1990
This article is an attempt to apply a systematic use of theory to gender inequalities in education. It expands on the tenets of liberal, radical, and socialist feminist perspectives to account for differential gender outcomes in terms of educational access, attainment, and field of study choices. The State emerges as a key actor regulating and…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Educational Research, Educational Sociology, Educational Theories
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Gordon, Liz – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1984
Willis's ethnographic study "Learning to Labour" affirmed the education system as a site of the transmission of class inequality and showed that this transmission is not the result of mechanistic social reproduction but rather of cultural processes within schools. The study and Willis's thoughts on the subject since the study was…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Educational Sociology, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnography
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Harker, Richard K. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1984
P. Bourdieu provides one of the few coherent accounts of the central role that the schools have in reproducing social and cultural inequalities from one generation to the next, while allowing for human agency. Some writings using Bourdieu's work in their arguments are critiqued. (RM)
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Educational Sociology, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Troyna, Barry – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1984
Conventional wisdom about the differential performance of White, Asian, and Afro-Caribbean pupils in the United Kingdom are challenged. Examined are the way in which the notion of underachievement has been conceptualized in research studies and literature reviews and how the evidence for Black underachievement has been generated and presented. (RM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Asian Americans, Black Students, Comparative Education
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Young, Michael F. D. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1984
Sociologists in the United Kingdom have neglected the emergence of information technology and the way it has taken on many of the characteristics of a new fashion. Conceptualizing technology is increasingly necessary if they are to make critical contributions to issues of educational policy and practice. (RM)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Computer Software, Educational Needs, Educational Policy
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Nash, Roy – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1984
Two writers, Hickox and Hargreaves, who recently criticized Marxist sociology of education, largely misunderstand and misrepresent the work they criticize. Hickox attributes a position to Marxist sociologists of education which few hold. Hargreaves is insufficiently familiar with Marxist scholarship to grasp the nature of the Marxist project.…
Descriptors: Educational Sociology, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Marxism
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Carrier, James G. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1984
An analysis of naturalistic educational psychology and sociological Marxist explanations of unequal educational performance shows that the debate is shaped by a fundamental theme in Western culture: the nature-culture opposition. Educational performance is influenced by the social and political interests of educators and researchers and by more…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Influences, Educational Psychology, Educational Sociology
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Swanwick, Keith – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1984
Discusses (1) the assumption that pop music can be legitimized in school by establishing that different criteria are necessary; (2) the attempt to provide appropriate analysis tools for music evaluation by arguing that music has a kind of social referent; and (3) the uses to which music is put. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Music Appreciation