This paper focuses on the social effect and individual meanings new staff and student members assimilate in formal orientations. (Author/EB)

Argues that the use of social theory will clarify the functions of the teacher and the school as personal ideologies that may have ignored social reasons for student performance are replaced by a more political analysis that can promote educational change. (FMW)

New theories and paradigms are needed for today's schools to address the changes in society that affect education. They must acknowledge the history of schooling, and they must be informed by ethnographic research on teacher-student relationships. Social science knowledge must be used to create more humanized schools. (VM)

Discusses the use of regimentation and depersonalization as socializing mechanisms at an inner city junior high school. Focuses on the routine encounters of newcomers and the way such encounters force students to redefine themselves according to institutional needs and practices. (PS)