SOC 207 Chapter Notes - Chapter 29: Herbert Gintis, Social Reproduction, Correspondence Principle
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Internalized control: prepares to be bosses, reflects values of parents as well, schooling functions at a material level to ensure the successful accumulation of capital by providing employers with trained workers. Children"s academic performance is more strongly related to parents" educational history than to parents" occupational status : **weird considering my parents. This fact filters down to lower-class boy (for a girl the outlook is even bleaker) situated in his habitus from the experiences and attitudes of those close to him . ***weird mention of women: boys loose interest and give up. School is crucial to the reproduction and legitimation of social inequality. (16: success or failure in school is determined largely by social class . Individuated meanings: linguistic codes = underlying regulative principles that govern the selection and combination of different syntactic and lexical constructions . Rooted in social divisions of labor : shirley brice heath, research"s language in the home and classroom.
