On Lindsay Paterson: Discipline, Method or Field? The Place of Education in the Social Sciences.

This article is the first of two relating to an event at the University of Edinburgh to mark the coming retirement of Lindsay Paterson, Professor of Education Policy. Here three of Paterson's close colleagues outline the very substantial contribution he has made to the study of Scotland, to understanding social inequality, and measuring the contribution of education to social mobility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]