Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Consistency, contradiction and ceaseless enquiry in the work of Michael Young -- SECTION 1 Sociology of education -- 1 Taking subject knowledge out and putting it back in again? A journey in the company of Michael Young -- 2 The new organon of Michael Young -- 3 'Beyond the present and the particular': similarities and differences between Michael Young's and Charles Bailey's arguments for the public provision of liberating forms of education for all -- 4 Powerful sociological knowledge? An analysis of the British Sociological Association and the Sociology School Curriculum in England -- 5 A Durkeimian approach to knowledge and democracy -- 6 What is educationally worthwhile knowledge? Revisiting the case for powerful knowledge -- 7 Michael Young's influence on the sociology of education -- SECTION 2 Curriculum studies -- 8 Michael Young, knowledge and the crises of capitalism -- 9 The curriculum arguments of Michael Young and John White -- 10 The road to Future 3: the case of geography -- 11 Powerful knowledge and the formal curriculum -- 12 Powerful knowledge - moving us all forwards or backwards? -- 13 'Making' and 'taking' problems: the curriculum field and Michael Young -- SECTION 3 Professional/vocational knowledge and education -- 14 Professional knowledge in the 21st century: 'immaterial' labour and its challenge for the 'trinary' -- 15 From the 'general' to the 'organic' intellect: reflections on the concepts of specialization and the curriculum of the future -- 16 Learning from qualification reform: the value and limitations of the notion of powerful knowledge -- 17 Theorising the conditions for theoretical knowledge in vocational education -- 18 Conceptualising vocational knowledge: the high road, the middle road and the low road