Barbara Schneider
Research Associate (Professor)
B.S. National Louis University, 1967
M.S. National Louis University, 1976
Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1979
Office: NORC 383
Phone: 773-256-6361
Email: b-schneider@uchicago.edu
CV: Curriculum Vita
Barbara Schneider is currently a John A. Hannah Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Sociology and the College of Education at Michigan State University. After 18 years as Professor in Sociology and Human Development at the University of Chicago, Barbara was recently appointed as Research Associate Professor and holds appointments at NORC as Co-Director of the Alfred P. Sloan Center on Parents, Children, and Work and Director of the Data Research and Development Center. She uses a sociological lens to understand societal conditions and interpersonal interactions that create norms and values that enhance human and social capital. Her research focuses on how the social contexts of schools and families influence the academic and social well being of adolescents as they move into adulthood. Professor Schneider has published 11 books and over 100 articles and reports on family, social context of schooling, and sociology of knowledge.
Journals
Currently she is the Editor of Sociology of Education
Research Interests
Sociology of Education, Stratification.
Selected Publications
Empty Time, Idle Minds: Challenges in Transitioning into Adulthood. Yale University Press, Forthcoming.
Scale-up in Practice (Schneider, B. and McDonald, S. (Eds.)). Volume I. Roman and Littlefield, 2006.
Scale-up in Principle (Schneider, B. and McDonald, S. (Eds.)). Volume II. Roman and Littlefield, 2006.
Being Together, Working Apart: Dual-Career Families and the Work-Life Balance (co-authored with Linda Waite). Cambridge University Press, 2005.
The Social Organization of Schooling (co-authored with Larry V. Hedges). New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005.
Trust in Schools: A Core Resource for Improvement (co-authored with Anthony S. Bryk). New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2002.
Becoming Adult: How Teenagers Prepare for the World of Work (co-authored with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi). New York: Basic Books, 2000.
The Ambitions Generation: America's Teenagers Motivated but Directionless (co-authored with David Stevenson). Cambridge: Yale University Press, 1999.
Redesigning American Education (co-authored with James S. Coleman, et al). Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.
"Students on the Move: Residential and Educational Mobility in American Schools," Sociology of Education, 1999.
"Opportunities for Learning: Course Sequences and Positional Advantages," Social Psychology of Education, 1998.
"Public School Choice: Some Evidence from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988," Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1996.
