| A | B |
| Randall Collins | credential society |
| Ray Rist | expectations of kindergarten teachers |
| George Farkas | teacher expectations in grading students |
| Talcott Parsons | the gatekeeping function of education |
| Emile Durkheim | The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life |
| Max Weber | The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism |
| Karl Marx | "religion is the opium of the people" |
| Ernest Troeltsch | cult-sect-church-ecclesia typology |