Course for international guest/part time students

Faculty

Faculty of Social Sciences

Organization

TÁTK Department of Sociology

Code

ESZOCBA18

Title

School and Society

Usual semester

Spring

ECTS

5

Language

en

Learning outcomes

The main aim of the course is to give an insight into the role of school in society. This includes an introduction to the history of institutionalized schooling, and also to the main characteristics of the globalized education system of the 21st century. The focus will be on how the school as a social institution operates and on its social functions. The classic social theories about education will also be discussed.

Course content

Schedule of the class -main topics Introduction. Main topics of the semester; requirements The social history of schooling; the social history of education. Formal and informal learning. Modern society and compulsory schooling. Reading: Durkheim: The First Element of Morality: The Spirit of Discipline  (in: Arum, 2015) Education as a mobility channel; education and the reproduction of social inequalities; education and socialization Readings: Willis: Learning to Labour (in: Arum, 2015) Education as a mobility channel; education and the reproduction of social inequalities; education and socialization 2 Reading: Lareau: Invisible inequality (in: Arum, 2015) Durst, Judit, and Ábel Bereményi. ‘“I Felt I Arrived Home”: The Minority Trajectory of Mobility for First-in-Family Hungarian Roma Graduates’. In Social and Economic Vulnerability of Roma People, edited by Maria Manuela Mendes, Olga Magano, and Stefánia Toma, 229–49. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52588-0_14. available on Canvas! Some classic theories on education: Bourdieu and capital conversion; Bernstein and linguistic codes Readings:  Collins: Functional and Conflict Theories of Educational Stratification (in: Arum, 2015) Some classic theories on education: Bourdieu and capital conversion; Bernstein and linguistic codes II. Readings: Lamont-Lareau: Cultural Capital: Allusions, Gaps, and Glissandos in Recent Theoretical Developments (in: Arum, 2015) Issues on school segregation. Socio geographical issues; school choice; school tracking Readings: Angela Oría , Alejandra Cardini , Stephen Ball , Eleni Stamou , Magda Kolokitha , Sean Vertigan & Claudia Flores‐Moreno (2007) Urban education, the middle classes and their dilemmas of school choice, Journal of Education Policy, 22:1, 91-105 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02680930601065791   available on Canvas What’s going on in schools? Curriculum and Hidden curriculum Readings: Apple: The politics of a National Curriculum (in Sadovnik, 2018) Educational policies; the global educational context Readings: Lingard, B., Sellar, S. (2013). Globalisation and Sociology of Education Policy: The Case of PISA. In: Brooks, R., McCormack, M., Bhopal, K. (eds) Contemporary Debates in the Sociology of Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137269881_2 Presentations about your school system along the dimensions discussed during the semester in class in pairs Presentations about the films in pairs Presentations about the films in pairs Summary Individual consultations on the final essays

Assessment method

Grade will be composed of: 1., a presentation about a film [relevant to the topic of the course], due around week 7-8 (30%) 2., Final essay about your own school/school system  from a sociological perspective (using the notions, frameworks, theories discussed during the course (60%) 3. Homeworks (10%)

Bibliography

Main course books: Jeanne H. Ballantine, Joan Z. Spade, Jenny M. Stuber: Schools and Society (2017): A Sociological Approach to Education,,Sixth Edition, Sages. (excerpts) Richard Arum – Irenee R. Beattie – Karly Ford (szerk.): The Structure of Schooling: Readings in the Sociology of Education. 3. kiad. Pine Forge, Thousand Oaks, 2015

Programmes of the course