Some of the most prominent sociologists working in education today have collaborated to address a wide range of empirical and theoretical issues. Adopting an international perspective, this book foregrounds cutting-edge research that highlights both the diversity and complexity of understanding education in society.

Michael Atkinson, University of Toronto, CanadaKeri Facer, University of Bristol, UKCarolyn Jackson, Lancaster University, UKMichael Kehler, The University of Western Ontario, CanadaWolfgang Lehmann, The University of Western Ontario, CanadaZeus Leonardo, University of California, Berkeley, USABob Lingard, The University of Queensland, AustraliaHeather Mendick, Brunel University, UKKagendo Mutua, University of Alabama, USASandra Nichols, University of Alabama, USARita Nikolai, Humboldt-University Berlin, GermanyAudrey Osler, Buskerud University College, Norway Steven Roberts, University of Kent, UKStephen T. Russell, University of Arizona, USASam Sellar, The University of Queensland, AustraliaNeil Selwyn, Monash University, AustraliaKaterina O. Sinclair, University of Arizona, USAElisabeth Morgan Thompson, LFA Group, USAHoang Tran, University of California, Berkeley, USAAnne West, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

1. Contemporary Debates within the Sociology of Education: An Introduction; Rachel Brooks, Mark McCormack and Kalwant Bhopal 2. Globalization and Sociology of Education Policy: The Case of PISA; Bob Lingard and Sam Sellar 3. Education Policy, Human Rights, Citizenship and Cohesion; Audrey Osler 4. School Type and Inequality; Rita Nikolai and Anne West 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; Steven Roberts 6. In a Class of their Own: How Working-class Students Experience University; Wolfgang Lehmann 7. Examining the (Em)bodied Boundaries of High School Locker Rooms; Michael Kehler and Michael Atkinson 8. Adolescent and Disabled or Adolescence Disabled? Education and the Construction of Gendered Identities Among Adolescents with Intellectual Disability; Kagendo Mutua and Sandra Cooley Nichols 9. It's How You Look or What You Like: Gender Harassment at School and its Association with Student Adjustment; Elisabeth Morgan Thompson, Katerina O. Sinclair, Riki Wilchins& Stephen T. Russell 10. What is so Liberal about Neoliberalism?: Schooling, Law and Limitations of Race-neutral Reforms; Zeus Leonardo and Hoang Tran 11. Fear In and About Education; Carolyn Jackson 12. Choosing Subjects: Sociological Approaches to Young Women's Subject Choices; Heather Mendick 13. Towards a Sociology of Education and Technology; Keri Facer and Neil Selwyn