Sociology of Education

Comprehensive Bachelor of Science in Sociology covering sociological theory, social stratification, research methods, deviance and crime, family, urban sociology, education, medical sociology, and contemporary issues

Sociology of Education

Education, Inequality, and Social Reproduction

Bourdieu's cultural reproduction, Bowles & Gintis correspondence principle, tracking, hidden curriculum, Coleman report, school-to-prison pipeline

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Educational Inequality: The Coleman Report and After

The 1966 *Equality of Educational Opportunity* (Coleman Report), the puzzle of family effects versus school effects, and Reardon's documentation of the widening income-achievement gap.

Higher Education, Credentialism, and the Hidden Curriculum

Credentialism (Collins), massification of higher education, student debt, first-generation students, hidden curriculum, academic capitalism

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School Choice: Charters, Vouchers, and Markets

The history of the school-choice movement, the empirical evidence on charter schools and vouchers in the U.S., and the long Chilean voucher experiment that has shaped international debate.

Higher Education: Expansion, Access, and Stratification

Trow's mass-to-universal higher education model, the rise of college completion, the tiered US HE system, and return-on-education debates.

Credentials and Credentialing

Randall Collins's The Credential Society (1979), signaling vs human capital, credential inflation, and gatekeeping professions.