An Organizational Sociology of Education
Using Structural, Network, and Ecological Perspectives to Study Schools
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2292167 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jose Eos Trinidad (0000-0001-9986-8683, University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 968-993 |
| Publication date | 2024-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0245 • E-ISSN: 1475-682X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/soin.12583 |
| OpenAlex | W4388688635 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 144 |
Highlighting changes in education and organizational theorizing since the 1950s, this review integrates three perspectives for an organizational sociology of education. The structural perspective focuses on how the formal organization of resources, relationships, and information can influence student outcomes and inequalities through opportunities to learn. The network perspective highlights the role of informal interactions and interpretation as well as social and cultural capital to bring about changes. The ecological perspective illustrates how schools are affected by other schools (horizontal dimension), the educational bureaucracy (vertical dimension), and organizations outside schools (community dimension). An organizational perspective can concretize often abstract sociological topics on stratification, social reproduction, and socialization. The perspective can also reconceptualize often individualistic views on contemporary education issues like student well-being, teacher shortage, racial inequalities, and school politics. The review ends with a discussion on how to incorporate these organizational perspectives and how they can complement current studies in education, sociology, and public policy
Bureaucracy · Individualism · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Social science · Socialization · Sociological imagination · Sociology · Sociology of Education · Parental Involvement in Education · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies · Youth Development and Social Support
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Organizational constraints on campus support programs
If I'm going to be an ally, I have to walk the walk
Organizations
Handbook of Education Policy Research
The Organization of Schools and Classrooms
Organizations as Sites and Drivers of Social Action
Hidden Markets
Relational Inequalities
Schoolteacher
Ghosts in the Schoolyard
New Institutionalism in Education, The
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Getting Beneath the Veil of Effective Schools
The Politics of Venture Philanthropy in Charter School Policy and Advocacy
Does External Accountability Affect Student Outcomes? A Cross-State Analysis
Barriers to parental involvement in education
Rotten Apples
What One Hundred Years of Research Says About the Effects of Ability Grouping and Acceleration on K–12 Students’ Academic Achievement
Good education in an age of measurement
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Organizing Schools for Improvement
Barriers to parental involvement in education
A review of research on the impact of professional learning communities on teaching practice and student learning
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Making Sense of Sensemaking in Organization Studies
Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking
Schooling in capitalist America
Hierarchical linear models
Handbook of Organizations (RLE
The principles of scientific management
Ability grouping predicts inequality, not achievement gains in Philippine schools
Fostering educational improvement with research-practice partnerships
Political battles in suburbia
The School Class as a Social System
Causality in a Social World
Handbook of Causal Analysis for Social Research
Left Behind by Design
The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization
Educational Opportunity in Early and Middle Childhood
Educational Transformations and Why Sociology Should Care
The Effects of Gentrification on Neighborhood Public Schools
Leaving the teaching profession
Tracking and inequality
Can Small High Schools of Choice Improve Educational Prospects for Disadvantaged Students
Data, Data, and More Data—What’s an Educator to Do
The Practice of Data Use
School–Central Office Relationships in Evidence Use
Conceptualizing and Measuring the Effects of School and Schooling
Data in Practice
Biopower and school surveillance technologies 2.0
You feel ashamed that you are not in the higher group ’—Children’s psychosocial response to ability grouping in primary school
Equity, engagement, and health
Rethinking School Improvement Organizations
Investigating School Leadership Practice
Educational Policy and Practice From the Perspective of Institutional Theory
The External Control of Organizations. A Resource Dependence Perspective
What Makes Professional Development Effective? Strategies That Foster Curriculum Implementation
Why Reform Sometimes Succeeds
Below the Bubble
How Paradigms Create Politics
An Organizational Analysis of the Effects of Ability Grouping
Organizational Routines as Coupling Mechanisms
Studying Teachers’ Sensemaking to Investigate Teachers’ Responses to Professional Development Focused on New Standards
Testing, Accountability, and the American Economy
Foundations of the Theory of Organization
The Unanticipated Consequences of Purposive Social Action
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The Iron Cage Revisited
Choice, Information, and Constrained Options
A Theory of Racialized Organizations
Socially-Structured Mobility Networks and School Segregation Dynamics
"I Need Help!" Social Class and Children's Help-Seeking in Elementary School
Neighborhood Effects in Temporal Perspective
The Myth Incarnate
Governmentality and the 'Selling' of School Surveillance Devices
Critical Race Theory and Education
Analyzing Schools as Organizations
Teachers' Decision-Making Power and School Conflict
Tracking
Social Class Differences in Family-School Relationships
A Reconceptualization of School Effects
Organizational Differentiation Of Students And Educational Opportunity
Cultural Capital
School Choice, Charter Schools, and White Flight
Social Capital and Student Achievement
Western Colonialism and World Society in National Education Systems
Sorting Schools
Bad Apples or Bad Orchards? An Organizational Analysis of Educator Cheating on Standardized Accountability Tests
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Beyond Tracking and Detracking
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Advantaged/Disadvantaged School Neighborhoods, Parental Networks, and Parental Involvement at Elementary School
Cohorts, ''Siblings,'' and Mentors
Fifty Years since the Coleman Report
The Paradox of Success at a No-Excuses School
The Embeddedness of Teachers' Social Networks
School Choice or Schools' Choice
The Impact of Sector on School Organizations
School Shootings as Organizational Deviance
Tracking, Students' Effort, and Academic Achievement
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |