This paper presents a promising model for using sociological learning to support the education of young people who are socially disadvantaged or display behavioral problems. A great many of these students are trapped in patterns of negative behavior. The goal of the model is to enable these young people to think explicitly about the role they are playing and to encourage them to strike out in a new direction. To this end, Erving Goffman’s sociological insights are used to stage a theatrical performance about school. This approach is informed by the microsociological tradition of proceeding from the concrete to the abstract in order to facilitate inductive learning and self-reflection. Goffman’s theory of social action provides the social-th...
"The use of the concept 'underclass' has been the subject of considerable debate among scholars of u...
The aim of this paper is to provide an outline of the clinical sociology of education, with the aim ...
The purpose of this paper is to draw out the consequences of the communal character of learning appr...
This paper presents a promising model for using sociological learning to support the education of yo...
This paper examines the relationship between social class and low academic achievement, in the light...
The core question of this issue of the JSSE, “Sociology? Who Needs It?”, sounds rather radical and p...
This paper examines the relative lack of attention given to learning and teaching issues at the depa...
Only marginal importance is attached to the analysis of social theories in textbooks for social scie...
Die These ist, daß Sozialwissenschaften für das Verstehen von Interaktionen im Unterricht einen Bede...
This paper explores a pedagogical dilemma: how can both transformative learning and the development ...
The paper deals with various performance factors in underachiever students primarily juvenile delinq...
Deviance is an intrinsic phenomenon of societies and has been dealt with in different ways throughou...
In this paper, I consider whether a theoretically defined concept of underclass can be helpful in so...
Young delinquents in Italy are seldom convicted in jail: in the most cases they stay within little c...
The present paper mentions the social dimension of the sources of deviant emotional and behavioural...
"The use of the concept 'underclass' has been the subject of considerable debate among scholars of u...
The aim of this paper is to provide an outline of the clinical sociology of education, with the aim ...
The purpose of this paper is to draw out the consequences of the communal character of learning appr...
This paper presents a promising model for using sociological learning to support the education of yo...
This paper examines the relationship between social class and low academic achievement, in the light...
The core question of this issue of the JSSE, “Sociology? Who Needs It?”, sounds rather radical and p...
This paper examines the relative lack of attention given to learning and teaching issues at the depa...
Only marginal importance is attached to the analysis of social theories in textbooks for social scie...
Die These ist, daß Sozialwissenschaften für das Verstehen von Interaktionen im Unterricht einen Bede...
This paper explores a pedagogical dilemma: how can both transformative learning and the development ...
The paper deals with various performance factors in underachiever students primarily juvenile delinq...
Deviance is an intrinsic phenomenon of societies and has been dealt with in different ways throughou...
In this paper, I consider whether a theoretically defined concept of underclass can be helpful in so...
Young delinquents in Italy are seldom convicted in jail: in the most cases they stay within little c...
The present paper mentions the social dimension of the sources of deviant emotional and behavioural...
"The use of the concept 'underclass' has been the subject of considerable debate among scholars of u...
The aim of this paper is to provide an outline of the clinical sociology of education, with the aim ...
The purpose of this paper is to draw out the consequences of the communal character of learning appr...