SOCIOL 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Meritocracy, John I Of Castile, Cultural Capital
Document Summary
Schools site where socially valued cultural capital superior academic performance economic capital/ acquisition of superior jobs. Each social class - disseminates specific cultural capital. And depreciates cultural capital of lower class. Differential academic achievement is retranslated back into economic wealth. School legitimates this process by making social hierarchies and the reproduction of those hierarchies-- and converts them into academic hierarchies. Structure of schooling- bc it highly regards upper- class cultural capital- promotes belief among working- class students that they are unlikely to achieve academic success. Connection between effort and reward gets taken for granted. Subjective system of internalized structures, schemes of perception conception and action common to all members of the same group or class (bourdieu) Functions as regulator between individuals and their external world. Being bad to the extreme - to be bad is good main criteria for status. Group solidarity all members must display serious commitment to the group. Cohesion between group members- striking characteristic of their subculture.
