Contentious Curricula by Amy Binder
Compares two challenges made to American public school curricula in the 1980s and 1990s. This book identifies similarities between proponents of Afrocentrism and creationism, accounts for their differential outcomes, and draws important conclusions for the study of culture, organizations, and social movements.-
Billionaire Wilderness
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Privilege
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Talking Prices
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Interaction Ritual Chains
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On Justification
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The Death and Life of Gentrification
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Impossible Engineering
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Contested Tastes
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Revolution of Things
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Offside
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Origins of Democratic Culture
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Religion and Family in a Changing Society
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Framing Europe
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The University and the Global Knowledge Society
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Disrupting Science
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Marketing Radicalism
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Data-Driven Hollywood
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The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical
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The Minds of Marginalized Black Men
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How Civic Action Works
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Partisan Publics
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Magazines and the Making of America
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There Goes the Gayborhood?
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Bearing Witness
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Reds, Whites, and Blues
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Seeing the World
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Reinventing Justice
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The Battle for Yellowstone
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Hollywood Highbrow
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Blessed Events
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The Moral Background
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Making Volunteers
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Gifted Tongues
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Community
Winner of the 2003 Best Book Award, American Sociology Association Winner of the Distinguished Scholarship Award, Pacific Sociological Association Winner of the Outstanding Book Award, American Educational Research Association "[A] provocative and engaging book.. As different as the two movements and their constituents were, Binder astutely shows that both used the rhetoric of pluralism, among other shared tactics, to make their cases."--Teacher "A useful addition to the corpus of social movement studies. Amy Binder presents a valuable analysis of attempts to change an institution."--Joseph R. Gusfield, Contemporary Sociology "Definitely worth reading, both as a good introduction to the literature on social movements and to what such analyses can bring to scholarship on the politics of educational reforms. It also has significant things to say both to those of us who are concerned about how the extension of democracy can function in paradoxical ways in education and to those readers who have a commitment to understanding the complexities of cultural pluralism and multiculturalism."--Michael Apple, Educational Policy "Binder carefully considers the scholarly literature of social movements and makes a contribution to it by examining social movements focusing on the impact of these movements on subnational governmental units."--Choice
Amy J. Binder is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780691117904 |
| ISBN 10 | 069111790X |
| Title | Contentious Curricula |
| Author | Amy Binder |
| Series | Princeton Studies In Cultural Sociology |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 2004-05-09 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Winner of American Sociological Association Culture Section Distinguished Book Award 2002 |
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