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1. Social Class and Education

   Global Perspectives

   Edited by Lois Weis, Nadine Dolby

   Social Class and Education: Global Perspectives is the first empirically grounded volume to explore the intersections of class, social structure, opportunity, and education on a truly global scale. Fifteen essays from contributors representing the US, Europe, China, Latin America and other regions...

   Published March 12th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Way Class Works

   Readings on School, Family, and the Economy

   Edited by Lois Weis

   Since the 1980s, the relationship between social class and education has been overshadowed by scholarship more generally targeting issues of race, gender, and representation. Today, with the global economy deeply immersed in social inequalities, there is pressing need for serious class-based...

   Published December 12th 2007 by Routledge
3. Ideology, Curriculum, and the New Sociology of Education

   Revisiting the Work of Michael Apple

   Edited by Lois Weis, Greg Dimitriadis, Cameron McCarthy

   For more than three decades Michael Apple has sought to uncover and articulate the connections among knowledge, teaching and power in education. Beginning with Ideology and Curriculum (1979), Apple moved to understand the relationship between and among the economy, political and cultural power in...

   Published April 2nd 2006 by Routledge
4. Class Reunion

   The Remaking of the American White Working Class

   By Lois Weis

   Series: Critical Social Thought

   Noted scholar Lois Weis first visited the town of "Freeway" in her 1990 book, Working Class Without Work. In that book we met the students and teachers of Freeway's high school to understand how these working-class folks made sense of their lives. Now, fifteen years later, Weis has gone back to...

   Published September 14th 2004 by Routledge
5. Working Method

   Research and Social Justice

   By Lois Weis, Michelle Fine

   Series: Critical Social Thought

   Working Method focuses on the theory, method, and politics of contemporary social research. As ethnographic and qualitative research become more popular, noted scholars Weis and Fine provide a roadmap for understanding the complexities involved in doing this research....

   Published July 19th 2004 by Routledge
6. Off White

   Readings on Power, Privilege, and Resistance, 2nd Edition

   By Michelle Fine, Lois Weis, Linda Powell Pruitt, April Burns

   With a fascinating new introduction on the proliferation and development of the field of whiteness studies and updated essays throughout, this much-anticipated second ddition continues to redefine our understanding of race and society. Also inlcludes three maps....

   Published July 12th 2004 by Routledge
7. Working Class Without Work

   High School Students in A De-Industrializing Economy

   By Lois Weis

   Series: Critical Social Thought

   Published February 21st 1990 by Routledge