Modrzewski, Jerzy2013-07-152013-07-152013Studia Edukacyjne, nr 24, 2013, 7-26978-83-232-2576-81233-6688http://hdl.handle.net/10593/6769The ambiguity in operationalizing education concept and social structure signifi cantly reduces the explanatory power of comparative analyses of empirical evidence, illustrating the nature of the mutual relationships between educational practice and the dynamics of social mobility and thereby an importance of institutional education in shaping the competitive rather than traditional channel of promotion of the next generation coming into the world. Even the relatively lenient treatment of this drawback reveals a variety of forms of these relationships and the generally indirect, ambiguous impact of educational processes on shaping the early and contemporary image of the stratifi ed social structure.pleducationsocial structurerelationshipsArtykuł