Role theory concerns one of the most important features of social life, characteristic behavior patterns or roles. It explains roles by presuming that persons are members of social positions and hold expectations for their own behaviors and those of other persons. Its vocabulary and concerns are popular among social scientists and practitioners, and role concepts have generated a lot of research. At least five perspectives may be discriminated in recent work within the field: functional, symbolic interactionist, structural, organizational, and cognitive role theory. Much of role research reflects practical concerns and derived concepts, and research on four such concepts is reviewed: consensus, conformity, role conflict, and role taking. Recent developments suggest both centrifugal and integrative forces within the role field. The former reflect differing perspective commitments of scholars, confusions and disagreements over use of role concepts, and the fact that role theory is used to analyze various forms of social system. The latter reflect the shared, basic concerns of the field and efforts by role theorists to seek a broad version of the field that will accommodate a wide range of interests.

Role Theory: Expectations, Identities, and Behaviors

Business & Money

Biddle, Bruce J.

Economics

Academic Press

Dispelling sensational beliefs that portray public schools as bureaucratic, violent, and ineffective, a study argues that increased population levels have distorted the statistics and reveals an improved competency among average students.

The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, And The Attack On America's Public Schools

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Berliner, David C.

Psychology & Counseling

Basic Books

The Manufactured Crisis debunks the myths that test scores in America's schools are falling, that illiteracy is rising, and that better funding has no benefit. It shares the good news about public education. Disputing conventional wisdom, this book ignited debate in Newsweek, The New York Times, and the entire teaching profession. Winner of the American Educational Research Association book award, The Manufactured Crisis is the best source of facts and analysis for people who care about what's really happening in our schools.

The authors tear through the sensational myths about the dire state of our public schools to give the reader an honest look at public education in America. Their conclusion: though not absent of severe problems, American public schools continue to provide an increasingly diverse citizenry with an opportunity to better themselves.

The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America's Public Schools

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Longman Pub. Group

This volume edited by Bruce J. Biddle and Edwin J. Thomas is called Role Theory: Concepts and Research. This book includes perspectives from leading scholars in the field of role theory and is the comprehensive text on the subject.

Role Theory: Concepts and Research

Krieger Pub. Co

Here is a report of a systematic study based on interviews with 120 school principals that addresses questions about the utilization of knowledge from social research. It offers evidence that challenges allegations about the "awful reputation" of educational research and its supposed lack of impact. The Untested Accusation: ·Describes the methods used in the investigation ·Provides reviews of related work with social research impact ·Defines major terms ·Provides a conceptual model for thinking about the problem ·Provides both quantitative evidence and verbatim quotes from principals ·Compares research knowledge use among public, private, and independent schools in two national contexts: the United States and Australia ·Discusses various strategies that can be used to improve the impact of educational research Findings from this study details: ·How principals are exposed to research knowledge and their attitudes concerning its use ·The types of research knowledge with which principals are familiar ·Reports of research knowledge use in various schools A summary of major findings and a discussion of conclusions and their implications are provided. This report concludes that educational research already has considerable impact and that school principals play active roles in converting that knowledge into innovative policies and practices. For teachers, administrators, school board members, and others interested in educational and social research.

The Untested Accusation: Principals, Research Knowledge, and Policy Making in Schools

Saha, Lawrence J.

R&L Education

The Unacknowledged Disaster concerns two huge and closely-tied but widely ignored problems that plague the U.S. On the one hand, America tolerates a massive amount of youth poverty, while on the other, youth poverty is the major social factor generating failure in the country's education. (More than one-fifth of American youths are now impoverished-a poverty rate far worse than those for American adults or the elderly and more than twice the size of youth poverty rates in other advanced nations-and poverty generates most educational failure effects in the U.S. often assigned to such factors as student race, broken homes, and the supposed failures of teachers and school administrators.) These problems have been studied extensively, and the tragedies they create are well known to scholars, but they are often misrepresented, misunderstood, or unacknowledged by far-right advocates, media figures, policy makers, and those concerned with serious problems that now beset the United States. This book reviews evidence concerning these problems and their dire effects, discusses ineffective or tragic outcomes that result when these problems are ignored, assesses why these problems are so often unacknowledged in the United States, and sets forth clear, evidence-based policies that can reduce the disastrous scope of American youth poverty and its destructive effects in education.

The Unacknowledged Disaster: Youth Poverty and Educational Failure in America

Brill Academic Pub

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Role Theory: Expectations, Identities, and Behaviors

The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, And The Attack On America's Public Schools

The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, And The Attack On America's Public Schools

The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America's Public Schools

Role Theory: Concepts and Research

The Untested Accusation: Principals, Research Knowledge, and Policy Making in Schools

The Unacknowledged Disaster: Youth Poverty and Educational Failure in America

The Unacknowledged Disaster: Youth Poverty and Educational Failure in America