portant). Rather, the concern is to reflect on the deeper social meaning, the wider theoretical significance, of what hap- pens in each social setting. In an attempt to assess the theoretical mean- ing of the differences among the schools, the work tasks and milieu in each will be discussed in light of the concepts used to

ed that knowledge and skills leading to social power and reward (e.g., medical, legal, manageri- al) are made available to the advantaged social groups but are withheld from the working classes, to whom a more "practical" curriculum is of- fered (e.g., manual skills, clerical knowl