Bourdieu on Education Flashcards

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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

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Contemporary Applications

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  • Ofsted - Cultural Capitals
  • school policies on uniform
  • curriculum based on middle - class knowledge
  • Teachers judgement
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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
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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
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