Areas of Research/Interest: Education; legal and institutional environments of schools; social stratification; student achievement and socialization; formal organizations; self employment.
Select Publications:
Stratification in Higher Education: A Comparative Study, Stanford University Press, 2007, coedited with Yossi Shavit and Adam Gamoran. The Reemergence of Self-Employment : A Comparative Study of Self-Employment Dynamics and Social Inequality, Princeton University Press, 2004, coedited with Walter Muller. Judging School Discipline: The Crisis of Moral Authority (Harvard University Press, 2003) with Irenee Beattie, Richard Pitt, Jennifer Thompson and Sandra Way. The Structure of Schooling: Readings in the Sociology of Education, McGraw Hill, 2000, coedited with Irenee Beattie. "Schools and Communities: Ecological and Institutional Dimensions," Annual Review of Sociology, 2000. Click here to read. "Labor Market Regulation and the Growth of Self-Employment," with Michelle Budig and Don Grant, International Journal of Sociology, 2000. "High School Experience and the Risk of Incarceration," with Irenne Beattie, Criminology, 1999. Click here to read. “Invested Dollars or Diverted Dreams: The Effects of Resources on Vocational Student Educational Outcomes,” Sociology of Education, 1998. Click here to read. “Do Private Schools Force Public Schools to Compete?” American Sociological Review, 1996. Click here to read. |
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