<span>The work describes and probes the relationships between the institutions of elite and non – elite secondary education and selected graduates of these institutions in Jamaica over an approximately fifty – year period. It considers the curricula, pedagogy, and values of the institutions, viewed as independent variables, and the propensity of a selection of their graduates to contribute to the accumulation of social capital, through civic engagement and the display of high levels of trust, and sociability, viewed as dependent variables, The research suggests that the institutions of education are the loci of the incorporation of individual actors’ stances towards the dominant society, and </span><span>have effects on their perceptions of their identity and ways of viewing and playing their social roles. The Inspirational Teacher and the Father - as -Interpreter of the society’s norms provide the primary foci through which these internalisations occur, and viewed as mediating variables, predispose individual actors to respond in ways which may or may not demonstrate a capacity and propensity for collaboration, and the building of socially, rather than personally, beneficial networks. The analysis attempts to tease out explanatory patterns and regularities in participants’ recounting of their educational experiences over the period of their high school years.Doctorate of Management Programs</span>
