Contemporary debates in the sociology of education / edited by Rachel Brooks, University of Surrey, UK, Mark McCormack, Durham University, UK, Kalwant Bhopal, University of Southampton, UK.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents. Ch. 1 Contemporary debates in the sociology of education: an introduction. - - Ch. 2 Globalisation and sociology of education policy: the case of PISA. - - Ch. 3 Education policy, human rights, citizenship and cohesion. - - Ch. 4 School type and inequality. - - Ch. 5 We know what they earn, but what do they learn? A critique of lifelong learning through the lens of workplace learning at the bottom of the service sector. - - Ch. 6 In a class of their own: how working-class students experience University. - - Ch. 7 Examining the (Em) Bodied boundaries of high school locker rooms. - - Ch. 8 Adolescent and disabled or adolescence disabled? Education and the construction of gendered identities among adolescents with intellectual disability. - - Ch. 9 Its how you look or what you like: gender harassment at school and its association with student adjustment. - - Ch. 10 What is so liberal about neo-liberalism? Schooling, law and limitations of race-neutral reforms. - - Ch. 11 Fear in and about education. - - Ch. 12 Choosing subjects: sociological approaches to young women’s subject choices. - - Ch. 13 Towards a sociology of education and technology.