ON WHAT IS LEARNED IN SCHOOL

ROBERT DREEBEN
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

With a New Prologue by the Author

From the Prologue to the Percheron Press Edition . . .

When it was written . . . I saw On What Is Learned in School as a kind of speculative essay intended to contribute to a rather undeveloped body of literature. Over the years its meanings have changed . . . . A reprinted book is in one sense the same book, but in another sense it is a markedly different one."

From the Sociology of Education review symposium . . .

"I like this book, although I have some really fundamental reservations about it. . . . [It] sparkles with analytical insights and pertinent observations even when its perspective may be overstated."

Ernest Q. Campbell

Amitai Etzioni:

"[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."

"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."

ISBN 0-9719587-0-X/paperback/194 pp./illus./est. July 2002/$28.00

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