Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Critique and utopia in the sociology of education / António Teodoro and Carlos Alberto Torres -- Schooling for critical education : the reinvention of schools as democratic organizations / Licínio C. Lima -- Globalization and the rescaling of educational governance : a case of sociological ectopia / Roger Dale -- Human rights and citizenship : the emergence of human rights education / David F. Suarez and Francisco O. Ramirez -- Europe as a bazaar : a contribution to the analysis of the reconfiguration of nation-states and new forms of 'living together' / António M. Magalhães and Stephen R. Stoer -- Educational policies and the sense of possibility : a contribution to democratic education in a progressive age / António Teodoro -- Rescuing education from corporate takeover : from "public choice" to public action / Clementina Marques Cardoso -- Basil Bernstein and the sociology for education / Ana Maria Morais -- Sociology of education or the education of sociology? Paulo Freire and the sociology of education / José Eustaquio Romão -- Bourdieu's sociology of education : identifying persistent inequality, unmasking domination and fighting social reproduction / Patricia M. McDonough and Anne-Marie Nuñez -- Paulo Freire, education, and transformative social justice learning / Carlos Alberto Torres.