Michael W. Apple is John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

Stephen J. Ball is Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK.

Luis Armando Gandin is Professor of Sociology of Education at the School of Education, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

This collection brings together the work of a group of the world's leading sociologists of education to explore and address key issues and concerns within the discipline. The chapters draw upon theory and research to provide 'state of the art' accounts of contemporary educational processes, global trends, and changing and enduring forms of social conflict and social inequality. The topics which are addressed are of international relevance and significance.

Part One: Perspectives and Theories 1. 'Spatializing' the Sociology of Education 2. Foucault and Education3. Education and Critical Race Theory4. The Ethics of National Hospitality and Globally Mobile Researchers5. Towards a Sociology of the Global Teacher6. Codes, Pedagogy and Knowledge7. Social Democracy, Complexity and Education8. The 'New' Connectivities of Digital Education9. A Cheese-slicer by any Other Name? Shredding the Sociology of Inclusion10. The Sociology of Mothering11. Rationalisation, Disenchantment and Re-enchantment12. Recognizing the Subjects of EducationPart Two: Social Processes and Practices 13. Doing the Work of God14. New States, New Governance and New Education Policy15. Towards a Sociology of Pedagogies16. Families, Values, and Class Relations17. Popular Culture and the Sociology of Education18. Schooling the Body in a Performative Culture19. Tracking and Inequality20. Economic Globalisation, Skill Formation and the Consequences for Higher Education21. Education and the Right to the City22. A Revisited Theme - Middle Classes and the School23. Governing without Governing24. The University in the Twenty-First CenturyPart Three: Inequalities and Resistances 25. The Indian Middle Classes and Educational Advantage26. Equality and Social Justice27. Educational Organizations and Gender in Times of Uncertainty28. Bringing Bourdieu to 'Widening Participation' Policies in Higher Education29. The Sociology of Elite Education30. The Dialogic Sociology of the Learning Communities31. The Democratization of Governance in the Citizen School Project32. Syncretism and Hybridity33. Dilemmas of Race-Rememory Buried Alive34. Momentum and Melancholia35. Sociology, Social Class and Education36. Interfaces Between the Sociology of Education and the Studies about Youth in Brazil37. Social Class and Schooling