Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1. Social Theory and Education
1. Introduction
2. Metatheoretical Foundations
Part 2. Structural Functionalism and Systems Theories
3. The Functionalist Tradition: Parsons and Education
4. Neofunctionalism and Education
Part 3. Structuralism: Neo-Marxist and Conflict Theories
5. Structuralism and the Logic of Reproduction
6. Structuralist Marxism: Correspondence Theories
7. Structural Conflict Theories: Culture, Class, and Domination
Part 4. The Convergence of Neo-Gramscian and Critical Theory
8. Critical Theory and Education: From the Frankfurt School to Poststructuralism
9. The Two Gramscis and Education: Technical Competence versus Political Consciousness
Part 5. Agency and Structure: Resistance and Reproduction
10. The Recovery of Agency: From the British New Sociology of Education to Cultural Studies
11. Critical Pedagogy in the United States: Michael Apple and Henry Giroux
Part 6. Education, the State, and the Logic of Reproduction
12. The Capitalist State and Educational Policy Formation
13. Education, Race, and Gender: Towards a Critical Modernist Perspective
14. Education, the Fragmentation of Domination, and Postmodernism
15. The Logic of Reproduction: Summary and Conclusions
Notes
References
Index