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2. Vertical and Horizontal Discourse: an essay.
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Bernstein, Basil
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EDUCATIONAL sociology , *EDUCATION , *DISCOURSE analysis , *INDIVIDUALITY , *PERFORMANCE , *SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
The analysis in this paper has its origins in a critical account of the sociology of education (Bernstein, 1975) where the various approaches to the study of sociology were taken as the distinguishing feature of the discourse. This matter was further developed (Bernstein, 1996), with the distinction between vertical and horizontal discourses and their various modalities introduced in the context of differentiating this mode of analysis from more 'Bourdieuan' perspectives. This present paper is concerned with filling out and extending the sketches adumbrated in earlier work in a more accessible form. The model proposed generates a language which relates the internal structure of specialised knowledges, the positional nature of their fields or arenas of practice, identity constructions and their change, and the forms of acquisition for successful performances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1999
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3. On Reproduction, Habitus and Education.
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Harker, Richard K.
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HABITUS (Sociology) , *EDUCATION , *CULTURE , *CULTURAL production , *SOCIAL reproduction , *EDUCATIONAL sociology , *SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
This paper sets out to demonstrate that Bourdieu's critics who claim that his theory is structurally 'frozen', with no room for human agency misperceive the basis of the theory The relationships between his theory and education are summarised and the concept of habitus explicated Then drawing on Outline of a Theory of Practice, the determinants of practice are shown to incorporate change and human agency This is then related to an examination of education as cultural practice, and some comments made in that light on a recent paper by Willis, and `Origins and Destinations'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1984
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4. Reimagining Critical Theory.
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Rexhepi, Jevdet and Torres, Carlos Alberto
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CRITICAL theory , *EDUCATIONAL sociology , *GLOBALIZATION , *POLITICAL sociology , *SOCIAL constructionism , *NEOLIBERALISM - Abstract
This paper discusses Critical Theory, a model of theorizing in the field of the political sociology of education. We argue for a reimagined Critical Theory to herald an empowering, liberatory education that fosters curiosity and critical thinking, and a means for successful bottom-up, top-down political engagement. We present arguments at a theoretical and meta-theoretical level, leaving empirical analysis to a future writing. We hold it impossible: to fully dissociate normative from the analytical in constructing scientific thought, thus showing the importance of the notion of a good society to guide varied intellectual explorations; to deny the political role of education; and to detach from historicity of thought and policy prescriptions emerging from such theorizing, as not all social constructions are equal in terms of logical configuration, methodological rigor, or solid empirical proof. What follows are snapshots of how we can reimagine the historical present, and how Critical Theory can impact the new theorizing of sociology of education. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2011
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5. Bernstein and the explanation of social disparities in education: a realist critique of the socio‐linguistic thesis.
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Nash, Roy
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EDUCATIONAL sociology , *ACADEMIC achievement , *SOCIAL psychology , *PHENOMENOLOGICAL sociology , *EFFECTIVE teaching , *EDUCATION , *SOCIOLOGY , *STRUCTURALISM , *SOCIOLINGUISTICS , *LANGUAGE & culture - Abstract
Can an explanation of the origins of social disparities in educational achievement be assisted by a critical examination of Bernstein’s sociology? This central question is approached by a consideration of the status of Bernstein’s socio‐linguistic thesis. The focus is on the nature of the explanations provided. The paper asks: What is the explanatory force of Bernstein’s structuralism? What is the relationship between Bernstein’s sociological explanations and Vygotskian psychological explanations? What are the effects for pedagogy of cognitive socialization mediated by language‐use consistent with Bernstein’s theory? The answers to these questions may pose a challenge for sociologists of education engaged with Bernstein’s sociology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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6. Navigating social partnerships: central agencies–local networks.
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Seddon, Terri, Billett, Stephen, and Clemans, Allie
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EDUCATION policy , *PARTNERSHIPS in education , *EDUCATIONAL cooperation , *SOCIAL policy , *POLITICAL planning , *EDUCATIONAL sociology , *EDUCATION , *SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
This paper considers the way social partnerships tend to be represented as either horizontal localised networks or neo-liberal policy instruments. Building on two empirical studies of partnerships, we argue that partnerships cannot be understood in either/or ways but are negotiated at the interface between central agencies and local networks. They are mediated by networks operating through the partnership and through government and community, and by the different organisational logics of agencies. These complexities challenge our ways of analysing and representing partnerships, and justify further research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
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7. ‘There's a war against our children’: black educational underachievement revisited.
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Crozier, Gill
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ACADEMIC achievement , *HIGHER education of minorities , *EDUCATION of minorities , *EDUCATIONAL sociology , *EDUCATION , *SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
This paper focuses on the educational experiences of a group of African Caribbean and mixed ‘race’ young people from the perspectives of their parents. The discussion is set within a national context where children of African Caribbean origin are one of the lowest achieving minority ethnic groups in the UK and are disproportionately one of the highest ethnic groups of children excluded from school. The parents recount a pattern of cumulative negative experiences which for many of the children results in academic underachievement and becoming demotivated to learn, by a system that they feel has rejected them, or imposed exclusion. The story is hardly new but it provides important further evidence that schools need to tackle head-on factors such as low teacher expectations and negative stereotyping of young black people and their contribution to black underachievement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
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8. Accuracy, Critique and the Anti-Tribes in Sociology of Education: A Reply to Sara Delamont's 'Anomalous Beasts'.
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Abraham, John
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EDUCATIONAL sociology , *SOCIOLOGY , *EDUCATION , *HOODLUMS , *SOCIOLOGISTS - Abstract
This article responds to Sara Delamont's paper in the February 2000 edition of Sociology which provides an account of the relationship between the sub-discipline, sociology of education, and parent discipline, sociology. Delamont argues that the hooligan is an anomalous beast for sociologists of education, who paradoxically revere him: while the sociology of education is an anomalous beast for the parent discipline, whose practitioners reject and fear it. Essentially, according to the author, the latter part of Delamont's argument amounts to the claim that the wider discipline of sociology has neglected sociology of education. The author notes that in this article, his response is concerned with Delamont's unsatisfactory characterization of British sociology of education. According to Delamont, sociology in Great Britain has two grand narratives, both male--one derived from the political arithmetic tradition is quantitative, empirical and focused on social mobility, and the other discursive and focused on anti-heroes: the portrayal of the rebellion or resistance of the hooligan. Delamont has attempted to characterize British ethnographic studies, which include some reference to anti-school/delinquent boys, and which have been conducted by male sociologists, as falling into the same category.
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- 2001
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9. Creative Journals and Destructive Decisions: A Comment on Singer's "Academic Crisis".
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Hill, Michael R.
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EDUCATION , *EDUCATIONAL sociology , *SCHOOL environment , *SOCIAL problems , *SOCIAL sciences , *SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
This article is a commentary to Benjamin Singer's essay on the criterial crisis in academe. It highlights several issues about which young academics and their elders routinely kitbitz at campus watering holes. Singer's lament is fundamentally an embroidery on lunchroom complaints and coffeehouse chatter dressed up with headings and a fine bibliography. Cynics may conclude that his article a good example of the "proliferation of journals and redundant and useless papers." And others may wonder, in the interests of reflexivity, whether Singer's paper was submitted to other journals before it was accepted by Sociological Inquiry and whether the paper as published was exempt from the vagaries and vicissitudes of peer review that Singer deplores. Since Singer suggests that few published papers are ever read, he will no doubt be surprised that his was discovered among the hundreds of sociological journals in our university library and that my reading of his work prompted the following observations about sociological publishing and tenure decisions.
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- 1990
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10. Code Theory and its Positioning: a case study in misrecognition.
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Bernstein, Basil
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RECOGNITION (Psychology) , *MEMORY , *EDUCATIONAL sociology , *EDUCATION , *SOCIOLOGY , *PSYCHOLOGY - Abstract
This paper is a response to Harker & May 1987 which rejects as inaccurate and misleading their 'exposition' of the theory, the analysis of the place of rules in the theory, the analysis of what is taken to be its structuralist base, and shows how forms of the practical sense may be realised in, and described by, the theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1995
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11. Post-modern Sociology as a Democratic Educational Practice? Some suggestions.
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Winter, Richard
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SOCIOLOGY , *DEMOCRACY , *EDUCATION , *POSTMODERNISM (Philosophy) , *EDUCATIONAL sociology - Abstract
This paper explores the relationships between sociology, democracy and education. Its main argument is that post-modernist theory (in spite of its own inherent inconsistencies) can be interpreted as a constructive challenge to the hierarchical presuppositions of academic sociology. It can thus help to provide a theoretical framework for formulating a new set of institutional arrangements for social inquiry, which would reconstitute sociology as a democratic educational practice. In order for this to occur, sociology must recognise that the problematic nature of the social relationships of authoritative interpretation constitute a key theoretical problem: a 'democratic' sociology must re-focus its efforts on formulating methods for critique which would help to enfranchise practitioners in the rigorous analysts of their work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1991
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12. The Cuts in British Higher Education: a symposium.
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Reid, Ivan, Brennan, John, Waton, Alan, and Deem, Rosemary
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EDUCATIONAL sociology , *HIGHER education , *UNIVERSITIES & colleges , *SOCIOLOGY , *EDUCATION - Abstract
This section presents several articles offering sociologists' views on cuts in British higher education as of 1984. John Brennan contributes a nation-wide view of the cuts in the public sector, outlines institutional policies and prejudices and suggests strategies for survival. His paper also shows that the distinctive ecology of public sector higher education poses both threats and opportunities for sociology. Meanwhile, Alan Waton provides a macro-view of the UGC action. Rosemary Deem writers of her experience as a County Councilor involved in working for the retention of courses in a public sector college and provides the only contribution with a happy ending. Also Ivan Reid discussed the problems and potentials of strategies for survival. According to Brennan, there never was a golden age for the polytechnics. He further said that they have experienced cuts and financial stringency over a long period of time. He also said that the effects have been gradual and have become almost taken for granted. Ivan Reid stated that it is difficult to establish whether sociology and sociology of education face threats over and above that posed to higher education in general. The intimate relationship of sociology of education with teacher education has meant that it has shared the fate of closures and cut-backs with the other disciplines of education and faced many of these well before the present situation.
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- 1984
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13. Cultural Themes in Educational Debates: the nature culture opposition in accounts of unequal educational performance.
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Carrier, James G.
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CULTURE , *EDUCATIONAL sociology , *ACADEMIC achievement , *EDUCATION , *SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
This paper investigates certain aspects of the debate about the causes of unequal educational performance By analyzing two illustrative explanations of performance. It shows that the debate appears to be shaped by a fundamental theme in modern Western culture, the nature-culture opposition. This suggests that the knowledge that we have concerning educational performance is influenced not only by the social and political interests and positions of educators and researchers, but also by more basic cultural concerns, and if we want to understand both educational performance and the debate surrounding it, we need to be aware of this broad influence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1984
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14. On Two Critiques of the Marxist Sociology of Education.
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Nash, Roy
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EDUCATIONAL sociology , *MARXIAN school of sociology , *SOCIOLOGISTS , *EDUCATION , *SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
Marxist sociology of education has been criticized in recent papers by Hickox and Hargreaves. It is argued that these writers largely misunderstand and misrepresent the work they criticize Hickox attributes a position to Marxist sociologists of education which few, if any, now hold Hargreaves makes a more powerful case, but is insufficiently familiar with Marxist scholarship to grasp the nature of the Marxist project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1984
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15. SOME INTRA-REGIONAL VARIATIONS IN EDUCATIONAL PROVISION AND THEIR BEARING UPON EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT-THE CASE OF THE NORTH EAST.
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Byrne, S. and Williamson, W.
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EDUCATION policy , *EDUCATIONAL sociology , *ACADEMIC achievement , *EDUCATION , *SOCIAL classes , *SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
This paper is concerned with the influence of the policy of local education authorities upon educational attainment. We suggest that the influence of local policy has been neglected in the sociology of education and hypothesize that policy variables are likely to be of major importance as determinants of attainment. Evidence drawn from correlations of policy, provision and social-class variables with each other and with various measures of attainment tends to validate this suggestion, and indicates that two `policy- models' of local authority activity may be appropriate: viz, the elite-orientated authority model, in which resources are differentially concentrated on a sponsored elite with consequent high attainment of this elite; and the egalitarian authority model where resources are more evenly spread throughout the school system with consequent `inferior' attainment of an elitist kind, but where the evidence suggests there is higher overall attainment of the total school system product. It would also appear that the determinant of the policy set pursued by an LEA. is the social class background of the area it covers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1972
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