Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture

by Pierre Bourdieu

2020-07-25 01:09:23

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, whi... Read more
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. The analysis is carried through not only in theoretical terms but through the development of empirically testable propositions within the wider framework of the historical transformation of the educational system. Less

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File size8.48x5.4x0.64inches
Print pages288
PublisherSage Publications Ltd
Publication date October 1, 1990
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780803983205
Pierre Bourdieu was the Professor of Sociology at the Collège de France....

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