HIST 110a Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Pierre Bourdieu, Basil Bernstein, Cultural Reproduction
15 Sep 2016
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Popular mind, school is great equalizer but reproduction theorists show schools actually reinforce inequality. Deterministic theories: structural requirements of capitalist economic system individuals must fulfill predefined roles to ensure perpetuation of society. Culturally attend models: experiences of individuals connected with demands of capitalist social relations. Samuel bowles and herbert gints: schooled by social class. Marxists forces and relations of production. Marx: capitalist process of production produces commodities and surpluses but also produces and reproduce capitalist relations - the capitalist and the wage laborer. Schools train wealthy to take place at top of economy and condition poor to accept low status. Correspondence principle: similarity between social relations of production and school (admin and teachers, teachers and students, students and students) Organization of power and authority in school and in workplace. Student"s lack of control of curriculum and worker"s lack of control of job content. Role of grades and role of wages as extrinsic motivation systems.
