Mitchell L. Stevens

TL;DR: This paper defined commensuration as the comparison of different entities according to a common metric, and discussed the cognitive and political stakes inherent in calling something incommensurable, and provided a framework for future empirical study of commensure and demonstrate how this analytic focus can inform established fields of sociological inquiry.

TL;DR: The authors analyzed quantification as a general sociological phenomenon and called for an ethics of numbers, drawing on scholarship across the social sciences in Europe and North America as well as humanistic inquiry.

TL;DR: "Creating a Class" explains how elite colleges and universities have assumed their central role in the production of the nation's most privileged classes and makes clear that, for better or worse, these schools now define the standards of youthful accomplishment in American culture more generally.

TL;DR: The authors argue that higher education lacks an intellectually coherent sociology; varied research on colleges and universities is dispersed widely throughout the discipline and argue that sociologists have conceived of higher education systems as sieves for sorting and stratifying populations, incubators for the development of competent social actors, temples for the legitimation of official knowledge, and hubs connecting multiple institutional domains.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the role of natural mothers, Godly women, authority and diversity in the development of women's education and their role in their children's education.