Sociology of Education, Traditions
7.5 credits
Reading list, Master's level, 4UK028
Main group 1
- Beauvoir, Simone de, Le deuxième sexe, Paris, Gallimard, 1949Compulsory (200 selected pages)
- Becker, Gary, Nobel Lecture: The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior, Part of: Journal of political economy., vol. 101, no. 3, 1993, p. 385–409, Link to PDFCompulsory
- Bourdieu, Pierre, La distinction: critique sociale du jugement, Paris, Ed. de minuit, 1979Compulsory
- Bowles, Samuel; Gintis, Herbert, Schooling in capitalist America: educational reform and the contradictions of economic life, New York, Basic Books, 1976Compulsory
- Broady, Donald, Text Pieces, Sept. 2015. Rapporter från Forskningsgruppen för utbildnings- och kultursociologi (SEC Research Reports) 6, Uppsala: SEC, Uppsala universitet, 2015Compulsory (70 p.)
- Crompton, Rosemary, Class and stratification, 3. ed., Cambridge, Polity, 2008Compulsory
- Durkheim, Émile, L'évolution pédagogique en France, 2. éd., Paris, c 1969, 1969 (Optional (205–400, 196 p.))
- Foucault, Michel, L'archéologie du savoir, Paris, Gallimard, 1969 (Optional (p. 1–102))
- Goffman, Erving, Asylums: essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1991 (Optional (p. 1–124))
- Bourdieu, Pierre et al., Le métier de sociologue: Préalables épistémologiques, Cinquieme edition, publié initialement 2005, Berlin ;New York, De Gruyter, 2005Compulsory (Selektion, ca. 100 pages)
- Moi, Toril, Simone de Beauvoir: the making of an intellectual woman, 2. ed., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008Compulsory
- Parsons, Talcott, The School Class as a Social System: Some of its functions in American society, Part of: Harvard educational review., vol. 29, no. 4, 1959, p. 298–318Compulsory
In addition, around 100 pages are added according to the teacher's instructions.
Course literature comprises about 1000 pages for a 7,5 ECTS course and about 2000 pages for a 15 ECTS course.
* Compulsory
Syllabus
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2026
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2018
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2015, version 2
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2015, version 1
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2014, version 2
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2014, version 1
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2013, version 2
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2013, version 1
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2010
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2008