The role played by family background in educational opportunity is a central focus in the sociology of education and stratification. Scholars have long recognized the importance of families in determining their children's educational success and, thus, in reproducing status over the generations. In the United States, children from single-parent…

Examines the Greek social system in terms of sociological interpretations, which tend to explain specific manifestations of social behavior based on national character or purely ideological interests and specific conflicts. She tries to unmask ideological rationalizations, focusing on aspects of the Greek school system as they relate to social…

Considers recent perspectives in educational research, particularly the use of critical ethnography in the study of comparative education. Reviews the origin and relationship to critical ethnography of sociological, anthropological, interpretive, and critical approaches in comparative education. Discusses specific utility to the study of…

Essay review of Education and Modernisation,'' by M. D. Shipman. London: Faber and Faber, 1971 and Social Conflict and Educational Change in England and France, 1789-1848,'' by Michalina Vaughan and Margaret Scotford Archer. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1971. (CB)

Examines the effects of colonial educational structure in Malaya and how the present-day adult has been conditioned by that structure. (Author/RK)

This essay is a first attempt to delineate the different threads woven into the conceptual tapestry of comparative education in North America, and some of the socio-political values that have pervaded basic research and policy recommendations. (Author)

Offered is an example of how contradictory macrostructural social tendencies are enacted in schooling. The central point of the paper is that socioeducational processes can be analyzed as a set of methods by which the fundamental social contradictions represented in educational settings are ordinarily continued. (Author/KC)

The author proposes study of educational interactions from a biological/psychological perspective that looks at the individual organism's adaptation to its environment through the modes of assimilation and accommodation. He applies these concepts to student/teacher interactions and considers the influences of subject discipline, school…

Examines elements in theories shaping comparative ethnicity research. Outlines methodological orientations in comparative ethnic studies: policy advocacy, qualitative methods, and quantitative analysis. Discusses the school as the unit through which researchers can measure indicators of economic equity, democracy, and resource allocation according…