This account of social life in three high schools combines a theoretical analysis and methodological awareness with a detailed study of social life in high schools. The emphasis is on how social relations differentially organize the meanning of the self for youths in different socioeconomic environments. The social psychology of school is a class social psychology and what is described are the cultural and social processes for which a class self is enacted in different high schools.

This account of social life in three high schools combines a theoretical analysis and methodological awareness with a detailed study of social life in high schools. The emphasis is on how social relations differentially organize the meanning of the self for youths in different socioeconomic environments. The social psychology of school is a class social psychology and what is described are the cultural and social processes for which a class self is enacted in different high schools.

Culture changes historically, and along with it, reflexive disciplinary representations. Without fully abandoning Sociology, especially the classical tradition, and instead aligning it with its own religious origins and inclinations to an emergent socio-religious imaginary, we look elsewhere for a historically more effective hermeneutic. Here we look especially toward Jewish mysticism particularly its social face in Hasidism as a source not only for alternative adaptive social practices within a society of excess, but at the same time show how it offers novel interpretations of social...

The Social Theory in Education Primer shows how classical sociology sets the frame for theory and research in education. Three major paradigms are explained in their historical context, and are used as a key to making sense of contemporary work that understands education from a sociological point of view. The central classical theorists considered are seen both in their own context, and also as the founders of the major movements that have continuing influence. The social theories of Durkheim, Marx, and Weber are used to frame and orient concepts for the different models of...