ABSTRACT
Sociology is as inescapably rhetorical a discipline as it is a moral discipline, and for much the same reason. The texts of sociology—its papers and its monographs—are predicated upon the texts of everyday life. The chapter provides a story about a set of particular cultural scenes; the description and interpretation of which is loosely framed by the sciences of sociology and anthropology. The list of social phenomena/objects typically involved in definitions of cultural content include modes of dress, values, architecture, language, kinship patterns, etc. Peter Woods, a sociologist working in the "interactionist" tradition, is particularly interested in the construction and reconstruction of school cultures. Schools and school cultures have garnered a great deal of attention in modern societies from a variety of social scientists. Investigating within-school cultures and those outside the school that may influence what goes on inside have become compelling interests of many educational anthropologists.
