Synopsis This is an interesting research monograph in Sociology of Education. The researcher has done micro study of a rural youth high-logting the relationship between his rural traditional background in the caste hierarchy, efforts to achieve horizontal and vertical mobility and modernize himself in keeping with the demands of the urban modern living and the profession of school teaching. This perceptive micro research will serve as an invaluable specimen to young researchers in Socioloy of Education and guide them as to how micro studies taking a single person can be and should be undertaken to explore the social reality. It is not really necessary to have a large sample of the respondents to discover a trend; micro-studies like the persent one can also reveal the latent as well as manifest functions involved. This is a unique contribution to the Indian researches in Sociology of Education.