Abstract
The relationship between the educational system and social class inequalities is one of the most fundamental issues in the sociology of education. Schools have been held up as both the means of achieving equality in society but also as centrally implicated in the reproduction of inequalities. So we are confronted with a conundrum. How is schooling to be understood in relation to social class? Is it a source of social mobility or even emancipation for the working classes or does it remain a means of controlling the lower orders and maintaining upper-and middleclass advantage? What is clear is that sociology has struggled to understand the complexities of, let alone provide solutions for, social class inequalities in education.
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