Academic Distinctions: Theory and Methodology in the Sociology of School Knowledge

<em><strong>Academic Distinctions</strong></em> is the most sustained and rigorous critique of radical sociology of school knowledge and its major figures to date. Using a variety of theoretical lenses to analyze and reconstitute the field--structuralist, poststructuralist and feminist--James Ladwig documents how the so-called "new sociologists of education" lost their theoretical way and failed to realize their educational goals.