Hightown Grammar: The School as a Social System

Abstract

system in general, and indeed on aspects of social policy and welfare provision in particular. Such a theory was offered by Andrzejewski, whose discussion of the 'military participation ratio' was first presented in English in 1954. It has subsequently been critically reviewed and applied by a number of writers, including the sociologist Philip Abrams (Past and Present, 1963), and separately by the historians Marwick and Milward.