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Lesson 8Education and Reproduction of Inequality
Education and Social Reproduction
Education – refers to the formal and informal process of transmitting the knowledge, beliefs and skills
from one generation to the next.
• goal : to free the members of society from ignorance and false beliefs.
Horace Mann Randall Collins
Functionalist Analysis Conflict Theory
•an American educational reformer who proposed •a neo-Weberian sociologist who argues that education
that education could cure social ills. functions as a filter to perpetuate credentialism.
• social ill – “social problem" or "social issue"•argues that people should be hired not on the basis of
examples: crime, bullying, racism, discrimination, educational qualifications, although this is necessary,
drug addiction, poverty and homelessness but on the actual skills of the applicants.
•believed that education is the great equalizer by
•Credentialism – the common practice of relying on
giving people the knowledge and critical skills
to participate in national development. earned credentials when hiring staff or assigning
•one of the most pervasive institutions that social status rather than on actual skills.
determine one’s future status. Pierre Bourdieu
j
Education-based Meritocracy – belief that Jean-Claude Passeron
education is the great equalizer and the key •French sociologists
to succeed in life. •showed how education is advantageous to middle class
children by teaching and rewarding behaviors that are
Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis generally expected from middle class families.
Schooling in Capitalist America •Middle class children possess relatively more cultural
•Education is a tool for capitalism to equip the workers capital.
with the necessary skills so they can be hired and Did you know that you have cultural capital? We all do.
exploited by employers. We all have different skills, tastes in music, and life
• capitalism – an economic system. People and companies experiences, to name a few. So why is cultural capital
make most of the decisions, and own most of the important? Our cultural capital gives us power. It helps
property. Goods are usually made by companies and us achieve goals, become successful, and rise up the
sold for profit. The means of production are largely or social ladder without necessarily having wealth or
entirely privately owned (by individuals or companies) financial capital.
and operated for profit.
Basil Bernstein Restricted Linguistic Code
•concluded that lower class s t ude nts follow the ●tied to a specific situation and context
restricted linguistic code, while the middle class ●Children from the lower class are at a disadvantage,
students follow the elaborated linguistic code. because schools operate on the restricted code.
Example
●Children from the lower class are limited to a form of
Teacher: Why do you like love stories?
language use, which although allowing for a vast
Restricted Code: Nakakakilig!
range of possibilities, provides a speech form which
Elaborated Code: I like watching love stories, because when
discourages the speaker from verbally elaborating
I put myself in the place of the main cast, I feel his/her
subjective intent and progressively orients the user to
emotions. I like the feeling of being loved!
descriptive, rather than abstract, concepts.
Elaborated Linguistic Code
●formal and abstract reasoning Education and Economic Development
●The middle class, being socially mobile, has access to Ho w is e duc at ion conne cte d to n at ion al
both the restricted and elaborated codes. development?
●Middle class children have a powerful advantage of 1. Education provides basic knowledge and skills that
using the elaborated code in schools with ease. enhancethe productivity of labor.
Educational reforms can provide new knowledge and
2. Education contributes to innovations that lead to inventions, re-tooling of existing skills of the people to expand
discoveries, and continuous upgrading of technologies. labor productivity.
An educated citizenry is the bedrock of modernization. The “Individuals who have invested in education and
greater the provision of schooling, the greater the increases in
national productivity and economic growth.
job training often have more job stability,
improved health, and are more likely to receive
3. Education is an effective instrument to spread and employer-provided health insurance and pension
disseminate knowledge among different sectors of society.
Education does not only produce well-informed citizens, but benefits, are more inclined to vote, and have
also amplifies human capital or the potential of the laborers to generally increased social and cultural capital
improve the quality of their work. that often enables upward mobility.”
–Brewer, Hentschke, and Eide (2010)
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