The collection begins with Cynthia Vejar’s summary of epistemology, which incorporates the theories behind historical and contemporary philosophers that have contributed greatly to the study of academia. Sociology of education, as Jennifer Kretchmar defines, studies education as a social institution and seeks to clarify the relationship between the learning process and variables like race, gender, accessibility, and socioeconomic status. Kretchmar then reviews educational anthropology, an academic discipline that studies the transmission of culture through education.