Authority, Conflict, and Teacher Effectiveness

An expanded version of this paper entitled "The Authority System of the School and Student Unrest: A Theoretical Exploration" will be published in the National Society for the Study of Education's 1974 Yearbook of Education, edited by C. Wayne Gordon. compatibly with others in his society and to utilize his cognitive and physical skills in effective (socially approved) ways. This, argued Durkheim (1961), is the most important function of the public school in any "modern" society. Beyond these two general functions school systems typically perform at least three other functions