This volume focuses on the nature of schooling and its links with the
family, occupations, and politics. Robert Dreeben emphasizes the
relationship between school structure and learning outcomes, the
importance of these outcomes to other social institutions, and the
contrasts between school structure and other socializing agencies. A new
prologue by the author places the book into the context of subsequent
developments in sociology of education. Originally published by
Addison-Wesley in 1968.