“…A study of the variation in forms of socialization according to social position, the book is an attempt to link an ethnography of educational practices in different classes and a sociology of class morals. From the description of socialization, the temporal perspective in which it takes place, the representations of the objective future that it implies, the view of work and the social position of the family that accompanies it, the sociological analysis tends to show how social learning is also an apprenticeship of social position, and how socialization is an internalization of social status…”