This book explores the issues surrounding the relationship between education and the larger society. The structures and relationships of education, economy, goverment, and culture are investigated as conditions of schooling are described. Chapters discuss: (1) "Reproduction, Contestation, and Curriculum"; (2) "Technical Knowledge, Deviance, and the State: The Commodification of Culture"; (3) "The Other Side of the Hidden Curriculum: Culture as Lived"; (4) "Resistance and Contradictions in Class, Culture, and the State: Culture as Lived"; (5) "Curricular Form and the Logic of Technical Control: Commodification Returns"; and (6) "Educational and Political Work: Is Success Possible?" (CB)