On What Is Learned in School

Robert Dreeben, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

'Robert Dreeben’s work cuts across many aspects of the sociology of education and is at the background of a whole range of discussions in the field. In this context On What Is Learned in School remains a most important document. The book has been my on own course reading list for decades and remains there now. It has many followers and is a landmark achievement.' (John W. Meyer, Stanford University) '[O]ne of the very best books written about the sociology of schools. The book benefits from a clear theoretical perspective, which illuminates the dynamics of a personality as it passes from the world of the family of origin to the adult world of work and politics.' (Amitai Etzioni, Sociology of Education) Dreeben has fleshed out . . . the bare bones of an argument that Parsons first advanced in an article on the school class as a social system . . . and has contributed his own theoretical insights into the relationship of the structure of the school to the socialization process.' (Jan J. Loubser, Sociology of Education)

• Prologue to the Percheron Press Edition Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The Social Structure of Family and School Settings Chapter 3. Patterns of Conduct in Families and Schools Chapter 4. Normative Outcomes of Schooling Chapter 5. The Contribution of Schooling to the Learning of Norms: Independence, Achievement, Universalism, and Specificity Chapter 6. Schooling and Citizenship Chapter 7. Schooling, Work, and Politics Author Index Subject Index