SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Pierre Bourdieu, Educational Inequality

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Sociology (SOC)
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: jones

Document Summary

Class-based inequalities in education remain strong in canada and elsewhere today. 1) biology: bowles and gintis offer strong evidence against. Control for iq and find that ses of parents has almost the same effect on educational attainment of children. Suggests iq largely irrelevant (and one cannot argue that iq is simply based on biology) 2) price: education is expensive, allowing the rich to get more of it than the poor. Indirect expense: lose salary by attending school. 3) cultural capital: proposed by pierre bourdieu. Cultural knowledge that serves (metaphorically) as currency to help one navigate a culture. Teachers treat and award students based on cc. Privileges student from advantaged backgrounds (especially well- educated parents) 4) neighborhoods: sociologists increasingly find that one"s neighborhood affects educational success. Quality: good schools are located in affluent areas. Friends: friendship networks among disadvantaged adversely affects educational success. Cultural capital: less likely to get in disadvantaged neighborhoods.