Reproduction In Education, Society And Culture, Vol. 4

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Author: Pierre Bourdieu

ISBN-10: 0803983204

ISBN-13: 9780803983205

Category: Education - Philosophy & Social Aspects

The way in which the ruling ideas of a social system are related to structures of class, production and power, and how these are legitimated and perpetuated, is fundamental to the sociological project. In this second edition of this classic text, which includes a new introduction by Pierre Bourdieu, the authors develop an analysis of education (in its broadest sense, encompassing more than the process of formal education). They show how education carries an essentially arbitrary cultural...

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The way in which the ruling ideas of a social system are related to structures of class, production and power, and how these are legitimated and perpetuated, is fundamental to the sociological project. In this second edition of this classic text, which includes a new introduction by Pierre Bourdieu, the authors develop an analysis of education (in its broadest sense, encompassing more than the process of formal education). They show how education carries an essentially arbitrary cultural scheme which is actually, though not in appearance, based on power. More widely, the reproduction of culture through education is shown to play a key part in the reproduction of the whole social system.

Preface to the 1990 EditionviiForewordxivForeword to the French Edition by the AuthorsxviiiTranslator's NotexxiiiAbout the Authors and TranslatorxxviiBook IFoundations of a Theory of Symbolic Violence1Book IIKeeping Order691Cultural Capital and Pedagogic Communication71Unequal Selection and Unequal SelectednessFrom the Logic of the System to the Logic of its Transformations2The Literate Tradition and Social Conservation107Pedagogic Authority and the Authority of LanguageLanguage and Relation to LanguageConversation and Conservation3Exclusion and Selection141The Examination within the Structure and History of the Educational SystemExamination and Unexamined ExclusionTechnical Selection and Social Selection4Dependence through Independence177The Particular Functions of 'the General Interest'Undifferentiated Functions and Indifference to DifferencesThe Ideological Function of the Educational SystemAppendixThe Changing Structure of Higher Education Opportunities: Redistribution or Translation?221Glossary of Institutions and Titles235Bibliography237Index243List of TablesTable 174Table 275Table 379Table 481Table 581Table 684Table 786Table 898Table 998Table 10225List of FiguresFigure 1Figure 292Figure 396