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| 1926 births | |
| coleman, james s. | |
| 1995 deaths | |
| american sociologists | |
| community building | |
| university of chicago faculty | |
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Coleman received his bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from , the University Of Chicago , at Johns Hopkins University ( 1959 - 1973 ), and then again at UoC, where he directed the National Opinion Research Center . In 1991 Coleman was made president of the American Sociological Association . Coleman is widely cited in the field of Sociology Of Education . His controversial 1966 article titled "Equality of Educational Opportunity" (often simply called the "Coleman Report") fueled debate about "school effects" that has continued since. This piece was commonly misinterpreted as evidence, or an argument, that schools have little effect on student achievement. A better reading of the Coleman Report is that relative to student background and socioeconomic status, measured differences in school resources (ie. per pupil spending) matter little in determining educational outcomes. Hanushek (1998) This research also suggested that socially disadvantaged black students profited from schooling in racially-mixed classrooms. This was a catalyst for the implementation of mass bussing systems, ferrying black students to integrated schools. Following up on this, in 1975 Coleman published the results of further research, this time into the effects of school bussing systems intended to bring lower-class black students into higher-class mixed race schools. His conclusion was that white parents moved their children out of such schools in large numbers; this is known as " White Flight ". His 1966 article had explained that black students would only benefit from integrated schooling if there was a majority of white students in the classroom; the mass bussing system had failed. One of the most important points he made was about social capital and how it is related to trust. In addition, Coleman was a pioneer in the construction of mathematical models in sociology, especially through his book, ''Introduction to Mathematical Sociology.'' Related to this was his major treatise ''Foundations of Social Theory'' that made a major contribution to contemporary efforts to produce a more rigorous form of theorizing in sociology. SELECTED WORKS
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