{"id":636,"date":"2006-07-18T11:28:05","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T15:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=636"},"modified":"2006-07-18T11:28:05","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T15:28:05","slug":"boiling-down-the-stratification-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=636","title":{"rendered":"Boiling down the stratification literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a new doctoral student this fall, I advised that we arrange an independent reading course on stratification and institutions, because there is no doctoral-level course right now that fits the bill, and the breadth of topics pushed me to figure out the essential introduction to stratification (as one of four topics for the semester). I know the student has read Foucault and has independent ideas on inequalities, so the key thing is enough of an introduction so that anyone having completed the readings would know about structural-functionalist, conflict (including reproduction and resistance in education), human capital, signaling, and networking models.  We get into new institutionalism later in the semester, but I think this is a reasonable stab&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr width=\"25%\">\n<ul>\n<li>Ralph H. Turner, \u201cSponsored and Contest Mobility and the School System,\u201d <cite>American Sociological Review<\/cite> 25 (1960), 855-67.\n<li>Randall, Collins, \u201cFunctional and Conflict Theories of Educational Stratification,\u201d <cite>American Sociological Review<\/cite> 36 (1971), 1002-1019.\n<li>Henry Giroux, \u201cTheories of Reproduction and Resistance in the New Sociology of Education: A Critical Analysis,\u201d <cite>Harvard Educational Review<\/cite> 53 (1983), 257-93.\n<li>James E. Rosenbaum, Takehito Kariya, Rick Settersten, and Tony Maier, Market and Network Theories of the Transition from High School to Work: Their Application to Industrialized Societies,\u201d <cite>Annual Review of Sociology<\/cite> 16 (1990), 263-99.\n<li>Charles Tilly, <cite>Durable Inequality<\/cite> (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999). <\/ul>\n<p>Though Foucault&#8217;s <cite>Discipline and Punish<\/cite> is commonly read as his work most obviously relevant to education, <cite>A History of Sexuality<\/cite> (the slim volume) has a more digestible discussion of power in general. The readings head off into other territories later in the semester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a new doctoral student this fall, I advised that we arrange an independent reading course on stratification and institutions, because there is no doctoral-level course right now that fits the bill, and the breadth of topics pushed me to figure out the essential introduction to stratification (as one of four topics for the semester). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-ag","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}