Charles Bidwell is a sociologist and the William Claude Reavis Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

. He is best known for his contributions to the sociology of education

Sociology of education

The sociology of education is the study of how public institutions and individual experiences affect education and its outcomes. It is most concerned with the public schooling systems of modern industrial societies, including the expansion of higher, further, adult, and continuing...

. His research topics have included the formal and informal organization of schools, the role of schools in society and how their role has changed over time. Bidwell is a past editor of the American Journal of Sociology

American Journal of Sociology

The American Journal of Sociology was established in 1895 by Albion Small and is the oldest academic journal of sociology in the United States. The journal is attached to the University of Chicago's sociology department and it is published bimonthly by The University of Chicago Press. Its...

, the Sociology of Education

Sociology of Education (journal)

Sociology of Education is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of Sociology. The journal's editor is David B. Bills...

 and the American Journal of Education

American Journal of Education

The American Journal of Education is published quarterly by the University of Chicago Press. Originally published from 1893 as School Review the name was changed in November 1979...

. In 2007, he received the Willard Waller Award in recognition of his career of distinguished scholarship.

Selected publications

• "The Collegial Focus and Student Achievement: Consequences of High School Faculty Social Organization for Students . Achievement in Mathematics and Science," Sociology of Education 74 (July, 2001):181-209. (With Jeffrey Yasumoto and Kazuaki Uekawa)
• "School as Context and Construction: A Social Psychological Approach to the Study of Schooling." In Handbook of the Sociology of Education, ed. Maureen T. Hallinan. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2000.
• Structuring in Organizations: Ecosystem Theory Evaluated. Greenwich CT and London, England: JAI Press, 1988. (With John D. Kasarda
  John D. Kasarda
  John D. Kasarda is an American academic focused on global management strategy, aviation and economic development. He is currently the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Kasarda is...
  
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• "The Sociology of Education" in Neil J. Smelser (ed.) Handbook of Sociology, Beverly Hills, Ca. Sage Publishing Co, 1988, pp. 449-471. (With Noah Friedkin)
• The Organization and its Ecosystem: A Theory of Structuring in Organizations. Greenwich, Conn. and London, England: JAI Press, 1985. (With John D. Kasarda
  John D. Kasarda
  John D. Kasarda is an American academic focused on global management strategy, aviation and economic development. He is currently the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Kasarda is...
  
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• "The School as a Formal Organization." In Handbook of Organizations, ed. James G. March. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1965.

External links

• http://sociology.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/bidwell.shtml