Download or read book Academic Distinctions written by James G. Ladwig and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic Distinctions is the most sustained and rigorous critique of radical sociology of school knowledge and its major figures to date. Using a variety of theoretical lenses to analyze and reconstitute the field--structuralist, poststructuralist and feminist--James Ladwig documents how the so-called "new sociologists of education" lost their theoretical way and failed to realize their educational goals.