ABSTRACT
There is now a new sociology of education, a revisionist educational history, studies of curriculum as ideology, and even reflexive analyses of the sociology of education and of curriculum studies. The sociology of knowledge is the basis for most social analyses of school knowledge or curriculum. This sociology is built on a theory of representation or naming. One thing stands for another, usually an idea for a social position. Knowledge can be analyzed as a process of transformation. Semiotics is an attempt to create a general science of signs, of all meaning or message systems. Class consciousness means the location of human activity in history. Class consciousness also means the ability to situate the individual and the immediate within a larger frame, to have a view of the social totality. Socialization to socially required values and skills insures role performance.
