ABSTRACT
Elsewhere (Wringe, 1984) I have discussed ways in which educators may be expected to contribute to the task of rendering society more democratic and (pp. 43-64) have particularly examined the vexed and complex issue of equality of educational opportunity. In the present chapter I am no longer concerned with equality of opportunity but with equality tout court. This is a more important and all-embracing aim, for if a society contained only a few social slots in which it were possible to have a satisfactory life, it would be of little comfort to other members of that society that the opportunities to obtain those positions had, in some sense, been equal. Our concern here is therefore with structural inequalities in society rather than with the identities and biographical details of those who occupy the various positions in the structure.
