Knowledge and Knowers: Towards a realist sociology of education (Legitimation Code Theory)

'This tour-de-force will set the agenda for the future of the sociology of education. Maton's writing is always engaging and thought-provoking. The book offers nothing less than a new approach to the morphology of sociological knowledge itself - a must-read .'- Professor Michael Grenfell, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland

'A truly majestic contribution that advances fundamentally the ideas of Basil Bernstein and Pierre Bourdieu. It is a formidable piece of work: imaginative, thought-provoking, intellectually out-reaching, and will surely constitute essential reading across the social sciences.'- Professor John Evans, University of Loughborough, UK

'For decades sociology has been the missing link in discourse analyses of social context. Maton's inspirational volume consolidates a sociology of immense theoretical insight and undaunted analytical precision to make this blind-spot obsolete. Theory is every scholar's best friend; social theory of this order is a very best friend indeed.'- Professor J.R. Martin, University of Sydney, Australia

`this book is for those who want to take learning and knowledge in a new direction'- Professor Jill Thistlethwaite, University of Technology Sydney, in Journal of Interprofessional Care

'This monograph is best described as a guidebook-the journey is carefully signposted and there is much encouragement for the traveller-and I expect that its impact on higher education studies is going to be significant.' - Professor Jennifer Case, University of Cape Town, South Africa, in Higher Education

`rich, layered, and highly imaginative...a major contribution...Social inclusion and achievement for all learners can be enhanced as our knowledge about knowledge and knowledge building is enhanced. This book certainly helps us move towards realising this aim.'- Dr Graham McPhail, University of Auckland, New Zealand, in Pacific-Asian Education

`the scope and ambition of Maton's work is remarkable and should be taken seriously ... Knowledge and Knowers represents a significant contribution to the sociology of education' - Dr Brian Barrett, SUNY, Cortland, USA, in Educational Theory

`This highly stimulating volume... is a must-read. LCT forms ...an attempt to build a systematic sociology of education with strong explanatory power with regards to knowledge in education and policy... this fascinating, wide-ranging, and internally coherent book will be of the greatest interest to sociologists and education policy scholars.'- Ernst Buyl, Ghent University, Belgium in Journal of Education Policy

`Knowledge and Knowers is lucid, generous and written with elegance and conviction.... provocative, thought-inducing and generative; offering a powerful, multi-faceted array of analytical tools to the project of cumulative knowledge building'- Fiona Jackson,University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, in Journal of Education