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Bureaucratic Order and Special Children: Urban Schools, 1950s–1960s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Joseph L. Tropea
Joseph L. Tropea*
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Sociology at George Washington University
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The character of the urban school has been shaped by the processes of democracy, law, bureaucracy, professionalism, and the market. These identify important but very different rule regimes, each with its own “action logic.” The concurrent exercise of these diverse regimes—not moderated by a common culture—implies conflict in the urban school's organizational evolution. Other difficulties are implied by the heterogeneity of the common school and job market transformations as well as by political pluralism.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , Fall 1987 , pp. 339 - 361
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Copyright © 1987 by the History of Education Society 

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