Department of Sociology

Professor Pamela B. Walters' research explores the tensions between the role of education as one of the most important forms of state social provision in modern societies a social right, an entitlement that follows from citizenship and the ways in which education reproduces and legitimates existing social inequalities. Her work situates education in its larger political and social context and closely examines the political struggles between potential winners and potential losers over access to valued educational resources. She served as editor of Sociology of Education, the major journal in her field. Professor Walters is the Indiana University Sonneborn Lecture award recipient for 2004.