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11/20
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Topics: Regression (Civilization) -- Fiction, Social stratification -- Fiction, Chinese Americans --...
This paper identifies and discusses the connections between the way individuals frame their world based on the language they use and the impact of language and stereotyping on the perception that computer technology is primarily for certain individuals. The study explores how some of the dimensions of the language of computers and technology, computer culture, and computer-based activities are inextricably linked to the language and culture of mathematics which has framed a particular way of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Computer Attitudes, Computer Uses in Education, Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis,...
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Oct 23, 2020
10/20
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Hytrek, Gary J
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Topics: Social stratification -- United States, Globalization, United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
This paper identifies the historical factors that played a key role in the rise of mass popular education and describes how these factors relate to education in Southern Africa in the 21st century. The broad overview of developments since the Renaissance begins with the Protestant Reformation, which established a theoretical basis for elementary vernacular education. Subsequent social forces that rivaled religious control of elementary schools are also discussed: the advent of modern science,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Access to Education, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Educational...
Although Griffiths (1979) argued that the turmoil in the field of organizational theory would inevitably spill over into educational administration, presaging a paradigm shift, the professoriate in educational administration in North America has largely ignored, or reacted with hostility, to debate over the theoretical foundations of the field. This essay accordingly surveys current thinking in America and in the British Commonwealth countries on the crisis in the theoretical foundations of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Education, Cultural Influences, Educational Administration, Educational...
Although proponents of "heavy" phonics instruction (intensive, systematic phonics instruction carried out extensively) argue that the literacy gap between minorities and the middle class can be closed by teaching phonics, heavy phonics instruction seems to be a tool for widening rather than closing the literacy gap between non-mainstream and mainstream children. Heavy phonics instruction may also be a tool for reinforcing and perpetuating socioeconomic inequalities. Heavy phonics...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Environment, Elementary Education, Hidden Curriculum, Phonics, Politics...
In 1987, the California State Department of Education issued "Caught in the Middle," a state policy document that called for extensive reform of the state's middle schools, including reductions in curricular tracking. Subsequent attempts to reduce tracking have frequently pitted reform-minded educators against resistant parents. This paper examines survey data from 373 California middle schools to evaluate the influence of various actors on school tracking policies. The paper explores...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Ability Grouping, Curriculum Design, Equal Education, Intermediate Grades, Junior...
Sociologists of knowledge find that academic stratification is present among individual scholars, genders, networks, fields, and all kinds of scientific organizations, while communications scholars have been studying global cultural asymmetry for a long time. Yet few researchers have explored the global dimension of academic stratification. In this essay, I approach global academic stratification through examining one of its major negative impacts on academies in culturally peripheral...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Organizational Development, Social...
Towards the end of the Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007 -2012), India catered to about 20 per cent of those in the age group 17 to 24 years. However, to achieve the threshold level of about 30 per cent by 2020, and address concerns that perpetuate inequalities in opportunities to higher education, the Government of India (GoI) formulated positive discrimination policies. Establishment of Open Universities in general and Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) in particular was one such...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Open Universities, Higher Education, Equal Education,...
Black underrepresentation in college enrollment and degree attainment can be seen as symptomatic of broad societal structures that have perpetuated inequality of socioeconomic and educational opportunity. This study examines a low-income black neighborhood to discover the extent to which blacks think of themselves as members of a subordinate caste and the effect of these feelings on their living and academic strategies. Among theories attempting to explain black underrepresentation in higher...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Aspiration, Black Attitudes, Black Culture, Black Family, Caste, Coping,...
This document provides an overview of the distribution of minority groups across the economic class structure, examines the concept of a separate underclass, and assesses the potential of strategies based on residential and job mobility for improving the prospects of each of the different classes. A racial comparison of all urban households on the basis of income yields the following findings: (1) 4 percent of Black households and 14 percent of White households comprise the upper class; (2)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Blacks, Economic Opportunities, Economic Status, Family Income, Hispanic Americans,...
Grouping students by ability into courses with distinct curricula, or "tracking" as it is called in middle and high schools, has provoked a furious debate among educational scholars and practitioners. Research on tracking invariably characterizes the practice as a school-level, unitary phenomenon; schools are depicted as either tracked or untracked. One consequence of such thinking has been to narrow educators' policy options to either acceptance or rejection of tracking. By examining...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Ability Grouping, Curriculum Design, Equal Education, Intermediate Grades, Junior...
English language sociological research on higher education in Canada from 1970-1980 is reviewed. Functionalists have tended to concentrate upon the task of describing the perceived functions of the educational system in the society and have usually considered major educational change as occurring in response to the requirements of the polity and the economy. Conflict theorists tend to emphasize features of social life that involve conflict, coercion, and the struggle for scarce resources. Some...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Choice, College Environment, College Faculty, College Students, Educational...
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Topics: Social classes -- United States, Social stratification -- United States, Social classes -- Press...
This report examines the decade of change in the U.S. system of finance for higher education, which has resulted in a set of programs and policies that are highly responsive to the demands of middle- and upper-income families for help but which are less well equipped to respond to the needs of lower-income families for assistance with their college investments. This paper documents this trend and examines the relationship between financing trends and trends in the enrollment patterns of U.S....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Access to Education, College Bound Students, College Choice, Educational Finance,...
This paper analyzes the impact of voucher design on student sorting in the application and enrollment phases of parental choice. More specifically, it investigates whether there are feasible ways of designing vouchers that can reduce or eliminate student sorting in these phases. Much of the existing literature investigates the question of sorting where private schools can screen students. However, the publicly funded U.S. voucher programs require private schools to accept all students unless...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Private Schools, Family Income, Educational Vouchers, School Choice, Admission...
For-profit charter schools represent a controversial new market-based education reform (Garcia, Barber, & Molnar, 2009; Conn, 2002). This essay explores how schools operated by for-profit corporations differ from those operated by non-profit organizations. Specifically, do for-profit charter schools locate in demographically distinct areas and serve different student populations than similar schools operated by non-profit providers? Research suggests that charter school operators in some...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Charter Schools, Proprietary Schools, Demography, School Location, Disadvantaged...
In this article the author expresses her views concerning the pre- and post-Hurricane Katrina public educational trend in New Orleans. She observes that the segregation that existed before Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, due in part to migration to the suburbs and in part to the proliferation of private and parochial schools, has divided students along lines of race, gender, class, and religion. Now that most schools in New Orleans have been obliterated, the author has fears about the future...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Public Education, Charter Schools, Educational Objectives, Natural Disasters,...
As part of a larger study of policy implementation, this paper discusses the changes in five Maryland high schools regarding the reform of graduation requirements. The study hypothesized that tracking systems have a powerful influence on educational experiences and that reform intended to change those experiences would be mediated by track. In 1985, the Maryland State Board of Education mandated new graduation requirements, which included: 1) the addition of a third credit in mathematics and 2)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Access to Education, Elementary Secondary...
This study is a sociolinguistic analysis of the variant pronunciation of /aI/, a selected phonological variable, by white informants in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Through a purposive sampling procedure, 56 informants were interviewed to determine their pronunciation of /aI/. Informants were ranked according to education, income, and occupation to determine social class. Specific environments of /aI/ were chosen for study. Conclusions show that the highest social class and the youngest age group...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Age Differences, Dialect Studies, Phonemes, Phonology, Pronunciation, Regional...
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Feb 24, 2020
02/20
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Wagley, Charles, 1913-1991
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Topics: Brazil -- Civilization, Brasil -- Vida social y costumbres, Brazil -- Social conditions --...
In this paper the compatibility of education and school desegregation are examined. The history of mass education in the United States is described as one of conflict over the meaning of integration. Desegregation is said to constitute a challenge to the assimilative logic of public education, charging the schools with accountability for integrating those who have not been assimilated. As such, forced integration is seen as challenging the major social control mechanism of public schooling. In...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Case Studies, Classroom Desegregation, Conflict, Educational Objectives, Educational...
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Aug 11, 2020
08/20
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Kelly, Sheelagh
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Topics: World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects -- England -- York -- Fiction, Social stratification --...
Among scholars of social stratification, the most important question about expanding postsecondary education is whether it reduces inequality by creating opportunities for disadvantaged students or whether it increases inequality by concentrating opportunities among those already privileged (Shavit, 2007). This discussion is important because of the personal benefits earned from attending postsecondary education, particularly from more prestigious colleges and universities. The positive effects...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Educational Opportunities, Socioeconomic Status, Socioeconomic...
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xxv, 264 pages : 26 cm
Topics: Prejudice, Social Conditions, Social Class, Sexism, Racism, Social stratification, Social aspects,...
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Oct 20, 2020
10/20
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Bell, Colin, 1942-
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262 pages 22 cm
Topics: Communities, Social stratification, Power (Social sciences), Sociology, Community Networks,...
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Aug 29, 2019
08/19
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Moore, Barrington, 1913-2005
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xix, 559 pages ; 24 cm
Topics: Social history, Economic history, Revolutions, Social classes, Revolutions, Economic history,...
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Aug 3, 2020
08/20
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Demerath, Peter
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ix, 208 p. : 24 cm
Topics: Educational sociology -- United States, High schools -- United States, Academic achievement --...
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Mar 2, 2020
03/20
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Lloyd, Peter Cutt, author
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223 pages ; 23 cm
Topics: Social classes -- Developing countries, Social classes, Social stratification, Underdeveloped...
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Sep 27, 2011
09/11
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Garner, Elizabeth
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Topics: University of Oxford, Exceptional children, Inventors, Fathers and sons, Social stratification
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Aug 6, 2020
08/20
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Murray, Mary, 1956-
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160 pages ; 23 cm
Topics: Women's rights -- Great Britain -- History, Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Great Britain --...
From a sermon series focused on combating racism and embracing God's reconciliation
Topics: community development, gentrification, racial reconciliation, beloved community, social...
The Social Science Research Council's committee report on personality change in the middle years of the human life cycle and a bibliographic listing of papers relating to the middle years comprise this document. The committee's interest and activity focus on the chronological age period from 40 to 60 years and are directed toward information exchange, committee meetings with guest participation, and seminars. The intent of the committee is two-fold: first, to fill a gap in research on the human...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adults, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Bibliographies, Economic...
Caribe: un region explosivo in: Taray (18 november 1981) J.R. (Quito) Nicolaas Republished online by Biblioteca Nacional Aruba with the author's permission. All rights remain reserved by the author.
Topics: articles, Caribbean, colonialism, decolonization, neocolonialism, Netherlands Antilles, Treaty of...
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May 8, 2018
05/18
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Petras, James F., 1937-
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xv, 285 pages ; 25 cm
Topics: Social classes -- Latin America, Social conflict, Socialism -- Latin America, International...
This paper examines the model of the family which permeates stratification literature, introduces a modified way of conceptualzing the family which takes into account its changing nature and subjects the reformulation to a limited empirical test. The data used to test this reformulation were drawn from a longitudinal research project on 779 undergraduates. Research variables consisted of occupational status of parents, parents' educational level, family's social class distribution, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Family Characteristics, Family Status, Females, Males, Models, Role Theory, Social...
One of the most significant educational reforms in Western Europe during the last two decades has been the attempt to create a system of comprehensive secondary schools. The traditional approach to secondary education was characterized by a highly stratified formal system in which students were allocated to academic, commercial, or vocational secondary schools on the basis of examinations taken at 10-12 years of age. The purpose of the comprehensive secondary school was to delay educational...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comprehensive Programs, Educational Change, Educational Opportunities, Educational...
In this interpretative qualitative study, the researchers investigated the beliefs and practices of six high school sociology teachers in relation to the teaching of gender. Using a feminist lens, this study employed mixed methods, analyzing teacher interviews, observations, and classroom artifacts. The results showed that the teachers viewed sociology as different from other social studies courses, because it serves as a more intentional way to reduce sexism and gender stratification. As such,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, High School Students, Secondary School Teachers, High Schools, Gender Differences,...
This paper argues that the texts, conversations, writings, and professional activities that construct our understanding of leadership come from an embedded, privileged perspective that has largely ignored issues of status, gender, and race. This perspective insidiously perpetuates a view of leadership that discourages diversity and equity. Two different lenses, or perspectives, are used to challenge the embedded assumptions and norms of educational leadership--feminism and privilege. A critique...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Diversity (Institutional), Educational Administration, Elitism, Equal Education,...
This paper evaluates the recent education reforms in the United Kingdom (UK) in terms of their contribution to the establishment of an equitable system of education income distribution. The UK education market as it exists today was set in motion by a package of reforms introduced as a result of the 1988 Education Reform Act. That legislation was designed to deregulate both the demand and supply sides of state-provided education--to empower the customers and to make schools more responsive to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Access to Education, Educational Change, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational...
This curriculum module is designed to provide potential users with access to pedagogic techniques and scholarly works on the subject of social stratification in contemporary Asian societies that can be effectively integrated into appropriate sociology and other relevant courses. First, a set of goals and learning objectives is presented in an attempt to provide potential users with an overview of expected outcomes. This is followed by a pre-testing instrument for the evaluation of students'...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Asian Studies, Class Activities, Community Colleges, Course Content, Curriculum...
The purposes of this publication are: (1) to report the status of higher education equity in the United States and to identify changes over time in measures of equity; and (2) to identify policies and practices that promote and hinder progress; and to illustrate the need for increased support of policies, programs and practices that not only improve overall attainment in higher education but also create greater equity in higher education opportunity and outcomes. In recognition of the need to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Indicators, Higher Education, Equal Education, Educational Trends, Trend...
This study examined the extent to which introduction of educational markets changed the social composition of secondary schools in England and Wales. Using data from the introduction of the 1988 Education Reform Act onward, it measured changes in the tendency for students with different socioeconomic characteristics to cluster in particular schools. It considered reasons for changes and regional differences in segregation, relating these reasons to changes in school examination results. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Admission (School), Educational Change, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries,...
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Topics: Educational equalization -- Canada, Educational equalization -- Poland, Social stratification --...
This article documents a community-initiated service-learning project within a teacher education program. A social justice model guided the initiative to raise critical awareness on power and privilege while countering deficit-model thinking. Partnering with community agencies serving immigrant children and youth, the faculty researcher worked with an office for community-engaged learning. Data included pre- and post-experience interviews with pre-service candidates. Findings showed benefits...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Faculty Development, Social Attitudes, Service Learning, Immigrants, School Community...
Education is an important aspect of human resource development. Imparting of education leads to the improvement of understanding, perception, attitude and efficiency of working population. Education has been considered as a lever to raise one's position in the society as well as a tool to fight against poverty and ignorance. Since the independence of India, several constitutional measures have been taken for educational enlistment of the SC (scheduled castes) and ST (scheduled tribes). Though...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Development, Foreign Countries, Tribes, Social Class, Social...
In this article, we critically analyze how neoliberalism, as a political-economic discourse, uses surveillance to produce a stratified student body for economic roles. Panoptic technologies regulate schools and teachers by perpetuating an "ethics of competition" that promote a market mentality of "educational choice" while propagating educational apartheid. We use the current U.S.A. legislation, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), as a foil for our argument and illustrate how some...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Political Attitudes, Economic Development, Educational Legislation, Federal...
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May 29, 2020
05/20
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368 pages ; 20 cm
Topics: Chinese Americans -- Fiction, Regression (Civilization) -- Fiction, Social stratification --...
Efforts in the United States to provide a higher quality education for everyone regardless of race, class, and gender have had, at best, a very modest effect. This paper suggests that the effect of a change strategy depends on the discourse (how things are talked about when teachers solve problems, plan their work, create policy, and explain things to one another). Discourse I in schooling cultures is a discourse about how to do the present work of schools better. Discourse II is a discouse...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Access to Education, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal...
This longitudinal study investigated the frequency and type of cross-sex peer interactions which occurred in six first grade classrooms. The effects of task structures (or patterns of instructional organization), and the impact of the racial composition of the classrooms on the frequency and type of cross-sex interactions were also explored. Ethnographic observations were completed in 30 to 90 minute sessions over a 5 or 6 month period in each classroom. Results revealed the following: (1) a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Behavior Patterns, Class Organization, Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation...
