Reprinted 2007 (digitally printed)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine derived contents note: 1. Introduction: The Social Transformation of Education and Society, P. Brown, A. H. Halsey, H. Lauder, and A. S. Wells -- Part One: Education, Culture, and Society -- 2. The Forms of Capital, Pierre Bourdieu -- 3. Class and Pedagogies: Visible and Invisible, Basil Bernstein -- 4. Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital, James S. Coleman -- 5. The Post-Modern Condition, Krishan Kumar -- 6. Crossing the Boundaries of Educational Discourse: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Feminism, Henry Giroux -- 7. Having an Postmodernist Turn or Postmodernist Angst: A Disorder Experienced by an Author Who is Not Yet Dead or Even Close to It, Jane Kenway -- 8. Feminisms and Education Gaby Weiner -- Part Two: Education, Global Economy, and Labour Market -- 9. Why the Rich are Getting Richer and the Poor, Poorer, Robert B. Reich -- 10. Education, Globalization, and Economic Development, Phillip Brown and Hugh Lauder -- 11. The New Knowledge Work, Stanley Aronowitz and William DiFazio -- 12. Education, Skill Formation, and Economic Development: The Singaporean Approach, David N. Ashton and Johnny Sung -- 13. Human Capital Concepts, Maureen Woodhall -- 14. The Gendering of Skill and Vocationalism in Twentieth-Century Australian Education, Jill Blackmore -- 15. Can Education Do It Alone?, Henry M. Levin and Carolyn Kelley -- Part Three: The State and the Restructuring of Teachers' Work -- 16. Education and the Role of the State: Devolution and Control Post-Picot, John Codd, Liz Gordon, and Richard Harker -- 17. The Global Economy, the State, and the Politics of Education, Roger Dale -- 18. Educational Achievement in Centralized and Decentralized Systems, Andy Green -- 19. On the Changing Relationships Between the State, Civil Society, and Changing Notions of Teacher Professionalism, Geoffrey Whitty -- 20. Changing Notions of Educational Management and Leadership, Gerald Grace -- 21. Assessment, Accountability, and Standards Using Assessment to Control the Reform of Schooling, Harry Torrance -- 22. Restructuring Schools for Student Success, Linda Darling-Hammond -- 23. Restructuring Restructuring: Postmodernity and the Prospects for Educational Change, Andy Hargreaves -- Part Four: Politics, Markets, and School Effectiveness -- 24. Politics, Markets, and the Organization of Schools, John E. Chubb and Terry M. Moe -- 25. Education, Democracy, and the Economy, Hugh Lauder -- 26. The `Third Wave': Education and the Ideology of Parentocracy, Phillip Brown -- 27. Circuits of Schooling: A Sociological Exploration of Parental Choice of School in Social Class Contexts, Stephen J. Ball, Richard Bowe, and Sharon Gewirtz -- 28. African-American Students' View of School Choice, Amy Stuart Wells -- 29. Choice, Competition, and Segregation: An Empirical Analysis of A New Zealand Secondary School Market, 1990-93, Sietske Waslander and Martin Thrupp -- 30. [Ap]parent Involvement: Reflections on Parents, Power, and Urban Public Schools, Michelle Fine -- 31. Can Effective Schools Compensate for Society?, Peter Mortimore -- Part Five: Knowledge, Curriculum, and Cultural Politics -- 32. Introduction: Our Virtue, Allan Bloom -- 33. The New Cultural Politics of Difference, Cornel West -- 34. On Race and Voice: Challenges for Liberal Education in the 1990s, Chandra Talpade Mohanty -- 35. The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children, Lisa D. Delpit -- 36. What Postmodernists Forget: Cultural Capital and Official Knowledge, Michael W. Apple -- 37. The Big Picture: Masculinities in Recent World History, R. W. Connell -- 38. Is the Future Female? Female Success, Male Disadvantage, and Changing Gender Patterns in Education, Gaby Weiner, Madeleine Arnot, and Miriam David -- Part Six: Meritocracy and Social Exclusion -- 39. Trends in Access and Equity in Higher Education: Britain in International Perspective, A. H. Halsey -- 40. Education and Occupational Attainments: The Impact of Ethnic Origins, Anthony Heath and Dorren McMahon -- 41. Problems of `Meritocracy', John Goldthorpe -- 42. Equalization and Improvement: Some Effects of Comprehensive Reorganization in Scotland, Andrew McPherson and J. Douglas Willms -- 43. Social Class Differences in Family-School Relationships: The Importance of Cultural Capital, Annette Lareau -- 44. The Politics of Culture: Understanding Local Political Resistance to Detracking in Racially Mixed Schools, Amy Stuart Wells and Irene Serna -- 45. Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion: Some Observations on Recent Trends in Education, Employment, and the Labour Market, Phillip Brown -- 46. Studying Inner-City Social Dislocations: The Challenge of Public Agenda Research, William Julius Wilson -- 47. Racial Stratification and Education in the United States: Why Inequality Persists, John U. Ogbu -- 48. The Bell Curve Wars, Steven Fraser -- 49. The Family and Social Justice, A. H. Halsey and Michael Young.