ABSTRACT
The business of the sociologist is to explore the systematic social relationships on which this artificial contrivance [curriculum] depends. He will examine subjects both within the school and the nation at large as social systems sustained by communication networks, material endowments and ideologies. Within a school and within a wider society subjects are communities of people, competing and collaborating with one another, defining and defending their boundaries, demanding allegiance from their members and conferring a sense of identity upon them. (Musgrove, 1968)
