School research has been dominated by perspectives focused on human capital and
program effects; what has receded is the organizational perspective highlighting the school …

Highlighting changes in education and organizational theorizing since the 1950s, this
review integrates three perspectives for an organizational sociology of education. The …

Schools are institutions. Whereas an organization is almost any social collective coordinated
by relatively formalized goals, routines and structures, and controlled by endowments or …

Research on schools has long been central to the development of institutional theory.
Scholars from the tradition now labeled “old institutionalism” used historical case studies of …

Schools have long been the subject of research across many fields, including (but not
limited to) education. For more than a century, scholars have queried the role of schools in …

Scholarly analysis in the sociology of education has burgeoned in recent decades. Frontiers
in Sociology of Education aims to provide a roadmap for sociologists and other social …

Contemporary educational institutions are undergoing simultaneous and contradictory
transformations in decentralization and standardization. Such change should force us to …

This book examines the evolution of schooling from bureaucracy and hierarchy to post-
industrial schools, and places teachers' leadership on center stage at the same time. That is …

As an institution in society, schools and schooling have taken on various meanings,
spanned multiple fields, and evolved over time. When we discuss schooling, we are …

After decades of accountability and market-based reforms in education, school systems are
now organizing more around improving teaching and learning. Yet these efforts frequently …