Although the period of student protests of the 1960s and 1970s has long passed, Alain Touraine argues, in this wide-ranging and vigorous essay, that the period's problems remain with us

Introduction to the Transaction Edition, Foreword, Acknowledgments, 1. Introduction, 2. National Integration, 3. The Consolidation of the Social Hierarchy, 4. Power and Professors, 5. Protest, 6. Integration or Disintegration of the Academic System, References, Index