Preface Steven Lerman.- Zooming-In: The Sociological Gaze and the Mathematics Classroom (Uwe Gellert).-  The Recognition of Pedagogic Rights in Mathematics Classrooms: A Framework for Reflecting Implicit Normative Assumptions in the Sociology of Mathematics Education (Hauke Straehler-Pohl and Michael Sertl).- Part 1: Enhancement: Facilitating Possible Futures.- Resistance from within the Mathematics Classroom: Silences, Strategies, and Subjectivities (Lisa Björklund Boistrup and Joakim Samuelsson).- “What might really happen?” – Reflections on Implicit Practices and Teachers’ Perspectives in the Context of ‘Realistic’ School Mathematics (Nikola Leufer and Nina Bohlmann).- Language Diversity Builds Mathematics Learning as much as Mathematics Learning Builds Language Diversity (Núria Planas).- Differential Enhancement in Mathematical Pre-School Class Activities (Ola Helenius, Maria L. Johansson, Troels Lange, Tamsin Meaney and Anna Wernberg).- Agency, Materiality, and MathematicsLearning in a Preschool Classroom (Eva Norén).- Part 2: Inclusion and Exclusion in Social Practices.- Racism and Mathematics Education in a Racial Democracy: Views from the Classroom (Luz Valoyes-Chávez).- Storytelling in a Fifth Grade Mathematics Classroom: Matters of Content and Personhood (Kara Jackson).- Deaf Students Learning Mathematics: Interactive Patterns, Participation, and Inclusion (Inês Borges).- Participation in Argumentation (Jenny Christine Cramer and Christine Knipping).- Part 3: Participation in Classroom Culture and Beyond.- Humanizing and Dehumanizing Trends in a Critical Math Classroom (Andrew Brantlinger).- Gendered Positions and Participation in Whole Class Discussions in the Mathematics Classroom (Laura Black and Darinka Radovic).- A Discourse-Based Framework for Identifying Authority Structures in Mathematics Classrooms (David Wagner and Beth Herbel-Eisenmann).- Meta-Rules of Discursive Practice in Mathematics Classrooms from Seoul, Shanghai and Tokyo (Lihua Xu and David Clarke).- Commentary: In Search for Common Ground (Eva Jablonka).

This volume is a forward–looking intersection of Sociological perspectives on mathematics classrooms and socio-political perspectives on mathematics education. The first perspective has generated a substantial body of knowledge in mathematics education. Interactionist research has deepened our understanding of interaction processes, socio-mathematical norms and the negotiation of meaning, generating a ‘micro-sociology’ or a ‘micro-ethnography’ of the mathematics classroom. More recently, socio-political perspectives on mathematics education interrelate educational practices in mathematics with macro-social issues of social equity, class, and race and with the policies that regulate institutionalized mathematics education.This book documents, strings together and juxtaposes research that uses ethnographical classroom data to explain, on the one hand, how socio-political issues play out in the mathematics class. On the other hand, it illuminates how class, race etc. affect the micro-sociology of the mathematics classroom. The volume advances the knowledge in the field by providing an empirical grounding of socio-political research on mathematics education, and it extends the frame in which mathematical classroom cultures are conceived.

“I would highly recommend this book for any mathematics educator that is trying to stay current with regards to the current research of sociological perspectives inside the mathematics class. The insights found within the research that formed the base of these chapters can be applied with all groups of mathematics students, and could easily be used to springboard into further research for the betterment of student learning in the mathematics classroom.” (Brent Kelderman, MAA Reviews, August 24, 2019)

Combines the issues of pedagogic rights with studies of teacher-student or student-student interaction in the mathematics classroom Brings together highly recognized international scholars in the field of mathematics education Provides an empirical grounding of socio-political research on mathematics education Extends the frame in which mathematical classroom cultures are conceived