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Challenges of Urban Education: Sociological Perspectives for the Next Centuryreviewed by John L. Rury - 2002 Title: Challenges of Urban Education: Sociological Perspectives for the Next Century Author(s): Karen A. McClafferty(ed.) Publisher: State University of New York Press, Albany ISBN: 0791444341, Pages: 384, Year: 2000 Search for book at Amazon.com The term "sociology" has come to represent both a formal
academic discipline and something of a residual category for
writers engaged in more imaginative social analysis and commentary.
Consequently, it features an unusually wide purview. This is
certainly evident in the field of education, where an expansive
range of studies and other publications are described as
sociological. The diversity of viewpoints and methods embraced by
scholars who work in this broadly conceived field is reflected in
the most recent volume to emerge from the editorial collaboration
of Carlos Alberto Torres and Theodore Mitchell, joined in this
instance by Karen McClafferty (and the subject of this review). In
this respect, the book is similar to their earlier SUNY volume on
"emerging perspectives" in the sociology of education. It embraces
many of the disparate elements that coexist in a sprawling academic
terrain.
Although the book’s title suggests that it deals with
urban education, in fact only about half the chapters are
explicitly concerned with schools or educational issues in... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- John Rury
University of Kansas E-mail Author JOHN RURY is professor of education at the University of Kansas, where his work concerns the history of American education and related policy studies, particularly concerning urban schools.
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