CONTENTS: List of Contributors/Foreword/Part I: Social Structures and the Educational Process/The Study of Loose Coupling: Problems, progress, and prospects/Changes in Authority Relationships in Schools: 1960-1980/Student Diversity and Instructional Groups/The Educational Attainment of Religio-Ethnic Groups in the United States/Part II: Education, Work and Personal Development/Education as a Valid but Fallible Signal of Worker Quality: Reorienting and old debate about the functional basis of the occupational hierarcy/Adolescent Work Hours and the Porcess of Achievement/Work and Self-Concept: Selection and socialization in the early career/Part III: Perspectives on Gender and Social Development/Gender Difference in Interpersonal Relationships and Well-Being/Impact of Changing Gender Role Expectations Upon Socialization in Adolescence: Understanding the interaction of gender, age, and cohort effects/Education and Gender Equality: A Critical review/The Relationship of Marital Status and Career Preparation toChanging Work Orientations of Young Women: A Longitudinal study.