The growth of schooling in global perspective / Evan Schofer -- A contextual understanding of schools' role in the stratification system: are schools a compensatory, neutral, or exacerbatory institution? / Douglas Downey -- Gender inequality in education: outcomes and experiences / Catherine Riegle-Crumb -- Hidden in plain sight: rethinking race in education / Rob Eschmann and Charles M. Payne -- Immigrant children and children of immigrants in American schools: shifting demographics / Edelina M. Burciaga -- Case study 1: sexualities in education / J. Pascoe and Tony Silva -- Social class and student-teacher interactions / Jessica Calarco -- First-generation college students / Lisa M. Nunn -- Peer sorting, peer influence, and student outcomes / William Carbonaro -- Case study 2: the "Asian f" and the racialization of achievement / Jennifer Lee, Sean Drake, and Min Zhou -- Schools and other educational organizations -- Creating the canon: the meaning and effects of textbooks and curricula / Patricia Bromley and Daniel Scott Smith -- Sorting students for learning: eight questions about secondary-school tracking / Sean Kelly -- Special education and social inequality / Jacob Hibel -- A sociology of school discipline / Richard Arum, E. Christine Baker-Smith, and Jessica Lipschultz -- Case study 3: within elite academic walls: inequity and student experience on campus / Megan Thiele and Karen Jeong Robinson -- School segregation by race/ethnicity and economic status / Ann Owens -- Sociological perspectives on leading and teaching for school change -- Sarah L. Woulfin -- School choice: policy and perspectives/ Linda Renzulli and Maria Paino -- Higher education and the labor market / Eric Grodsky and Julie Posselt -- Case study 4: importing school forms across professional fields: an understudied phenomenon in the sociology of education / Amy Binder and Scott Davies.

"Drawing on current scholarship, Education and Society takes students on a journey through the many roles that education plays in contemporary societies. Addressing students' experience of education before expanding to larger sociological conversations, Education and Society helps readers understand and engage with the topics covered in the book, including peer groups, gender and identity, social class, the racialization of achievement, the treatment of immigrant children, special education, school choice, accountability, discipline, global perspectives, and schooling as a social institution. The book prompts students to evaluate how schools organize our society and how society organizes our schools. Moving from students to schooling to social forces, Education and Society provides a lively and engaging introduction to theory and research and will serve as a cornerstone for courses such as sociology of education, foundations of education, critical issues in education, and school and society"--Provided by publisher.