A monograph that brings together a range of areas in the sociology of knowledge and education (epistemological, aesthetic, curricular, the world of work, educational policy) that are analysed in isolation from one another.

INTRODUCTION.; SECTION ONE: THE PROBLEM OF KNOWLEDGE; CHAPTER 1. For Knowledge: tradition, progressivism and progress in education - reconstructing the curriculum debate. CHAPTER 2. Going Critical: the problems of problematising knowledge in education studies.; CHAPTER 3. The Way We Live Now.; CHAPTER 4. Cultural Capital: objective probability and the cultural arbitrary.; CHAPTER 5. Hierarchical Knowledge Structure and the Canon: a preference for judgments.; CHAPTER 6. Basil Bernstein and Social Theory.; CHAPTER 7. Knowledge Structures and Intellectual Fields: Basil Bernstein and the Sociology of Knowledge.; CHAPTER 8. Education, Production and Reform.; CHAPTER 9. The Construction of Skill.; CHAPTER 10. The Case of TVEI (Technical and Vocational Initiative).; CHAPTER 11. Appropriating Competence: the competency movement, the New Right and the 'culture change' project.; CHAPTER 12. Professionalism, Expertise and Control in Teacher Training; CHAPTER 13. Education and Post-Fordism.; CHAPTER 14. The Correspondence Principle and the Marxist Sociology of Education.; CONCLUSION. Back to the Future: the problem of change and the possibilities of advance in the sociology of education.