El «espíritu colectivo» en el trabajo. Una década en la vida de la sociología de la educación en los Estados Unidos

Abstract

The niche space claimed by the U.S. sociology of education focuses on studies of educational achievement and educational attainment as conditioned by social inequality, family and student behaviors, and school organization. Although it is indirectly influenced by contemporary policy issues, Sociology of Education typically does not engaged policy directly, because other journals and books examine policy. It is relatively silent on comparison of educational systems, because other journals and books examine educational systems from a comparative perspective. Given this intellectual division of labor, we can perhaps feel comforted that important issues neglected by the sociology of education are not entirely neglected by the larger collective mind, which includes all of the pedagogical and social science disciplines and the journals attached to these disciplines.