Reproduction in education, society, and culture
By: Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron ; translated from the French by Richard Nice ; with a foreword by Tom Bottomore.
Contributors: Passeron, Jean Claude.
Edition: 1990 ed. / preface by Pierre Bourdieu.
Series: Theory, culture & society; Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)
Publisher: Sage in association with Theory, Culture & Society, Dept. of Administrative and Social Studies, Teesside Polytechnic; Sage Publications Ltd
Published: 1990
Place of publication: London; Newbury Park, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Educational sociology; Education -- Philosophy
Description: 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 Reproduction Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-241) and index.
Translation of: La reproduction.