Course Schedule
Week 1. Sep 18 Course introduction
Week 2. Sep 25 Theoretical foundations (1): Functionalism, Conflict theory
1. (Weber 1946) The "rationalization" of education and training
2. (Collins 1971) Functional and conflict theories of educational stratification
3. (Shavit and Blossfeld 1993) Persisting barriers: changes in educational opportunities in thirteen countries
Week 3. Oct 02 Holiday (No class)
Happy Mid-autumn festival!
Week 4. Oct 09 Holiday (No class)
Happy National Day!
Week 5. Oct 16 Theoretical foundations (2): Educational stratification
1. (Sorokin 1959) Social and cultural mobility
2. (Haller and Portes 1973) Status attainment processes
3. (Bowles, Gintis, and Meyer 1999) The long shadow of work
Week 6. Oct 23 The institution of education
1. (Turner 1960) Sponsored and contest mobility and the school system
2. (Meyer, Ramirez, and Soysal 1992) World expansion of mass education, 1870-1980
3. (Raftery and Hout 1993) Maximally maintained inequality: Expansion, reform, and opportunity in Irish education, 1921-75.
4. (Lucas 2001) Effectively maintained inequality: Education transitions, track mobility, and social background effects.
Week 7. Oct 30 Turn in paper proposal (No Class)
**Please submit your proposal for the final paper before 5PM to the instructor’s mailbox at the sociology office (8th floor)**
Week 8. Nov 06 Education as capital
1. (Becker 1975) Human capital (Arum, Beattie, and Ford 2015)
2. (Coleman 1988) Social capital in the creation of human capital
3. (Stevens 2008) Culture and education
Week 9. Nov 13 Cultural capital in stratification and conflict theories
1. (Bourdieu 1973) Cultural reproduction and social reproduction
2. (Bourdieu 1986) The forms of capital
3. (Lareau and Weininger 2003) Cultural capital in educational research: a critical assessment
Week 10. Nov 20 Education in Individual Life Course (Conference Attendance)
**Turn in a half-page conference memo on Moodle before 5PM on Nov 22. **
Event:
Dates: Nov 19-21
Location: Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica
Class does not meet this week. Instead, you should go to the conference at Academia Sinica. The conference is about transition to adulthood in Taiwan and elsewhere. As per the title, not all sessions focus on education. However, most of them will inevitably draw on ideas related to education, as it is often of critical importance. You are free to join any session of your interest, and of any language (there are sessions in Chinese and English). Attendance at any one of them fulfills course participation requirement. You do not need to register for the conference, participation is free. (Registration is required only for those who want food and a hard copy of the program at the conference.)
Week 11. Nov 27 Family and education
1. (Calarco 2014) Coached for the classroom: Parents’ cultural transmission and children’s reproduction of educational inequalities.
2. (Lareau 1987) Social class differences in family-school relationships: the importance of cultural capital
3. (Calarco 2011) “I Need Help!” Social Class and Children’s Help-seeking in Elementary School.
4. (DiMaggio 1982) Cultural capital and school success: the impact of status culture participation on the grades of U.S. high school students
Week 12. Dec 04 Gender and education
**Turn in paper outline at the beginning of class**
1. (Buchmann, DiPrete, and McDaniel 2008) Gender inequalities in education
2. (Charles and Bradley 2009) Indulging our gendered selves? Sex segregation by field of study in 44 countries
3. (Grant and Behrman 2010) Gender gaps in educational attainment in less developed countries
4. (Park, Behrman, and Choi 2013) Causal effects of single-sex schools on college entrance exams and college attendance: random assignment in Seoul high schools
Week 13. Dec 11 Race, ethnicity, and education
1. (Jao and McKeever 2006) Ethnic inequalities and educational attainment in Taiwan.
2. (Fordham and Ogbu 1986) Black students’ school success: coping with the burden of ‘acting white’
3. (Tyson, Darity, and Castellino 2005) It's not “a Black thing”: understanding the burden of acting white and other dilemmas of high achievement
4. (Suárez-Orozco et al. 2011) Migrations and schooling
Week 14. Dec 18 Individual meetings
This is your final opportunity to discuss your final paper before the presentation.
Week 15. Dec 25 In-class workshop
Class presentation will take the format of a mini conference. Each student/group will have 15min to present their final project, followed by 3min Q&A. (The exact time for each presentation depends on the number of presenters.)
This is an opportunity to receive comments from knowledgeable readers, make revisions on your final paper, and practice defending your research or idea. Attendance and active participation in the workshop is a sign of support to your fellow classmates, and it is also good karma when it is your turn to present. You are required to join class and provide feedback even if you are not presenting.
Week 16. Jan 01 Holiday (No class)
Happy New Year!
Week 17. Jan 08 Turn in final paper
**Turn in your final paper on Moodle before noon. If you choose to submit through email, you must obtain an email of confirmation from the instructor.**
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