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Reproduction in education, society, and culture / Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron ; translated from the French by Richard Nice ; with a foreword by Tom Bottomore.

Van Pelt Library LC189 .B613 1990
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002
Contributor:
Passeron, Jean-Claude.
Series:
Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)
Theory, culture & society
Standardized Title:
Reproduction. English
Language:
English
French
Subjects (All):
Educational sociology.
Education--Philosophy.
Education.
Physical Description:
xxvi, 254 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Edition:
1990 edition / preface by Pierre Bourdieu.
Place of Publication:
London ; Newbury Park, Calif. : Sage in association with Theory, Culture & Society, Dept. of Administrative and Social Studies, Teesside Polytechnic, 1990.
Summary:
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.
Contents:
Book I Foundations of a Theory of Symbolic Violence 1
Book II Keeping Order 69
1 Cultural Capital and Pedagogic Communication 71
Unequal Selection and Unequal Selectedness
From the Logic of the System to the Logic of its Transformations
2 The Literate Tradition and Social Conservation 107
Pedagogic Authority and the Authority of Language
Language and Relation to Language
Conversation and Conservation
3 Exclusion and Selection 141
The Examination within the Structure and History of the Educational System
Examination and Unexamined Exclusion
Technical Selection and Social Selection
4 Dependence through Independence 177
The Particular Functions of 'the General Interest'
Undifferentiated Functions and Indifference to Differences
The Ideological Function of the Educational System
Appendix The Changing Structure of Higher Education Opportunities: Redistribution or Translation? 221.
Notes:
Translation of: La reproduction.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-241) and index.
ISBN:
0803983190
0803983204
OCLC:
22662634

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