Bourdieu on Education Flashcards
1
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Educational as Cultural Reproduction
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Middle-class habitus given symbolic capital
1. teachers and heads are middle class
2. those that write curriculum and policies are middle class
- working class disadvantaged subject to symbolic violence
2
Q
Contemporary Applications
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- Ofsted - Cultural Capitals
- school policies on uniform
- curriculum based on middle - class knowledge
- Teachers judgement
3
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Support for Bourdieu
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- Archer - Nike identities (what they wear)
- Reay - Psycho-social approach - cleft habitus (conforming to M/C but staying into W/C due to friends)
- Sullivan - students with higher cultural capital achieve higher
4
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Criticisms
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- Functionalists suggest that education is meritocratic
- socialised into value consensus - skills need to be achieve
- students acquire cultural capital throughout their education