The RoutledgeFalmer reader in sociology of education / edited by Stephen J. Ball.

Includes bibliographical references.

Sociology of education : a disputational account / Stephen J. Ball -- The forms of capital / Pierre Bourdieu -- 'Finding or losing yourself'? : working-class relationships to education / Diane Reay -- Education, globalization and economic development / Phillip Brown and Hugh Lauder -- Globalisation, the learning society and comparative education / Peter Jarvis -- The social construction of youthful masculinities : peer group sub-cultures / Mike O'Donnell and Sue Sharpe -- The discursive production of the male/female dualism in school settings / Bronwyn Davies -- Performatives and fabrications in the education economy : towards the performative society / Stephen J. Ball -- The capitalist state and public policy formation : framework for a political sociology of educational policy making Carlos Alberto Torres -- Cultural politics and the text / Michael W. Apple -- Social class and pedagogic practice / Basil Bernstein -- The reconstruction of primary teachers' identities / Peter Woods and Bob Jeffrey -- Teachers doing their 'economic work' / John Smyth and Geoffrey Shacklock -- Schools, families and academically able students : contrasting modes of involvement in secondary education / Sally Power, [and others] -- Towards a sociology of learning in primary schools / Andrew Pollard.