Social Relations in a Secondary School

serves to be widely read not only by professional sociologists and psychologists but by school governors, teachers and parents. It now seems likely that the controversy over comprehensive schools and the triparite system is almost completely over; comprehensive schools are here to stay?the real argument now is 'what kind of comprehensive school?' In other words what kind of internal organisation of social structure should this new kind of school have. It is this vital question which is too little discussed?partly because it is a less obvious problem to those outside the schools, and partly because very little research has been done on thisWe simply do not know what happens