ABSTRACT
There are so many people to whom I am grateful for help in the production of this book that I can only mention those to whom I am most outstandingly indebted: to Prof. Basil Bernstein for initiating and encouraging me to undertake the project, as well as for innumerable conversations to which I owe whatever little understanding of sociology I may possess; to Peter Hopkins and Carol Gardiner of Routledge, the former for patience and sympathy, the latter for some invaluable corrections; to Dr Steven Lukes for criticism, encouragement, advice and generosity in allowing me to learn from his own translations; and finally in chronological order to Mrs Winifred Newnham, Miss Brenda Farmer, Mrs Toni Tattersall, Mrs Dot Howard and Miss Mary Pritt, all of whom uncomplainingly contributed to the laborious business of transcription of tape and manuscript.
