Customer Reviews
Helpful for the PGCE Student - By: PGCE Student, 29 Oct 2008 
This book is a difficult text for a first timer to sociology. On the other hand, it is very useful to the PGCE student as essentail reading & for background knowledge needed for essays.
I recommend that a newcomer to Sociology will firstly read a good A Level text on the subject matter before tackling this book.
Sociology neednt be like this - By: Mr President, 05 Apr 2003 
Although the books reviews of previous editions proclaim it to be a wonderful introductory world of Sociology of Education, it is anything but. More often that not, the authors take an idea & proceed at great speed to spout out a load of waffle. The sociological concepts discussed, are discussed badly. There is littlein way of examples to explain complex terms. And after reading it i have been left more confused about the Sociology of Education than ever before. If you are stuck for a book that explains education extremely well, making good use of evidence & succeedsin explaining educationin just over 100 pages then read Sociology: Themes & Perspective by Haralambos & Holborn; this book achieves what A Sociology of Educating cannot doin over 500 pages.
A Sociology of Educating is overall a badly written & as such limitedin its use unless you have exceptionally good attention skills. Beyond that, for the general sociology student it will only achievedin one thing - giving you a headache.
Save your cash.
