THE STRUCTURE OF INTERESTS
To describe the control of the system, it may be sufficient to identify four sets of interests. They are the interests of
(1) the state,
(2) parents,
(3) the society, and
(4) the incumbents or occupants of positions in the system.
There are two immensely important points to be noted about this enumeration.
The first has to do with the concept of "interests" itself.
Interests, it may be argued, are always identified as the interests of some persons or group of persons.
They are never disembodied.
Thus, it may seem that we cannot be clear in identifying any interests unless we can be quite precise in identifying the persons or groups of persons whose interests they are.
We can speak of the interests of parents, and the interests of the incumbents of the system because we know roughly what persons are referred to by the words parents and incumbents.