CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART 1: SOCIAL THEORY AND EDUCATION -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Metatheoretical Foundations -- PART 2: STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONALISM AND SYSTEMS THEORIES -- 3. The Functionalist Tradition: Parsons and Education -- 4. Neofunctionalism and Education -- PART 3: STRUCTURALISM: NEO-MARXIST AND CONFLICT THEORIES -- 5. Structuralism and the Logic of Reproduction -- 6. Structuralist Marxism: Correspondence Theories -- 7. Structural Conflict Theories: Culture, Class, and Domination -- PART 4: THE CONVERGENCE OF NEO-GRAMSCIAN AND CRITICAL THEORY -- 8. Critical Theory and Education: From the Frankfurt School to Poststructuralism -- 9. The Two Gramscis and Education: Technical Competence versus Political Consciousness -- PART 5: AGENCY AND STRUCTURE: RESISTANCE AND REPRODUCTION -- 10. The Recovery of Agency: From the British New Sociology of Education to Cultural Studies -- 11. Critical Pedagogy in the United States: Michael Apple and Henry Giroux -- PART 6: EDUCATION, THE STATE, AND THE LOGIC OF REPRODUCTION -- 12. The Capitalist State and Educational Policy Formation -- 13. Education, Race, and Gender: Towards a Critical Modernist Perspective -- 14. Education, the Fragmentation of Domination, and Postmodernism -- 15. The Logic of Reproduction: Summary and Conclusions -- NOTES -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- Y.