1. Chapter 2
1.1. Conservative
1.1.1. Social Darwinist thought that applied to evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin. Strongest individual and or groups to survive and looks at human and social evolution as a adaptation to changes in the environment.
1.2. Liberal
1.2.1. Liberal view has its origin in the twentieth century. The liberal perspective although accepting the conservative belief in a market capitalist economy believes that the free market is left unregulated.
1.3. Radical
1.3.1. Radical in contrast with the conservative and the liberal perspective believe that free market capitalism is the best form of the economic organization but rather believes that democratic socialism is a fairer political economic system.
1.4. Neo-Liberal
1.4.1. Neo-Liberal reform is often a synthesis of conservative and liberal perspectives. Neo-Liberal reformers have critiqued failing traditional urban public schools and attribute their failures to teacher union and their support of teacher tenure and layoffs based of seniority and the absence of student, teacher, and school accountability to ensure improvement.
2. Chapter 4
2.1. Functional theories
2.1.1. Functional Sociologists begin with a picture of society that stresses the independence of the social system, researchers examine how well the parts are integrated with each other.
2.2. Conflict theories
2.2.1. Clearly conflict sociologists do not see the relation between school and society has unproblematic or straight forward
2.3. Interactional theories
2.3.1. The critics arises from the observations that functional and conflict theories are very abstract and emphasize structure and process at a very general macro sociological level of analyzing although this level of analyzing helps it understand that education is the big picture.