State Nobility
Subtitle: Elite Schools in the Field of Power
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Polity Pr
Published: August 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780745620282
Subjects: Civil service & public sector; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Philosophy of education; Social groups & communities
First sentence: In keeping with the usual view, the goal of sociology is to uncover the most deeply buried structures of the different social worlds that make up the social universe, as well as the "mechanisms" that tend to ensure their reproduction or transformation.