Pupils Class Identities & the School - Bourdieu

Question 1

What is a habitus?

Answer 1

• tastes and preferences about lifestyles and consumption,

- their outlook on life and expectations

Question 2

What does the middle class have the power to do?

Answer 2

define it habitus as superior and impose it on the education system

Question 3

What happens as a result of the middle class imposing their habitus on the education system?

Answer 3

• the school puts a higher value on middle class tastes and preferences
• this gives middle class pupils an advantage
• wc culture is regarded as inferior

Question 4

What do middle class have due to their habitus ?

Answer 4

symbolic capital - status and recognition from the school and are deemed to have worth or value

Question 5

How does the school see working class habitus?

Answer 5

worthless and tasteless

Question 6

What does Bourideu think withholding ‘symbolic capital’ is?

Answer 6

symbolic violence

Question 7

What does symbolic violence do?

Answer 7

• reproduces the class structure

- keeps the lower class in their place

Question 8

What happens as a result of the differences in habitus’?

Answer 8

there is a clash and WC may experience education as unnatural