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 theoretica
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`Reveals new features in the analysis of social classes and political power. Arising probably from the intense interest in cultural dominance and cultural revolution that emerged in radical movements... these investigations connect cultural phenomena firmly within the structural characteristics of a society, and begin to show how a culture produced by this structure in turn helps to maintain it' - Tom Bottomore
`The most striking successes of their work are their redefinitions of the very character of educational research... There is an especially brilliant discussion of the relations between a traditional literary culture and selection for arts courses' - Raymond Williams
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The purpose of these graphical conventions is to remind the reader that the concepts they stand for are themselves a shorthand for systems of logical relations which could not be set out in full in each proposition, although they were required for the construction of these propositions and are the precondition for an adequate reading. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
twofold arbitrariness, pedagogic agency, content inculcated, grandes dcoles, dominant cultural arbitrary, legitimate addressees, pedagogic communication, informative efficiency, pedagogic action, pedagogic message, pedagogic relation, pedagogic work, spontaneous sociology, symbolic mastery, pedagogic authority, cultural arbitrariness, social conservation, given social formation, symbolic imposition, explicit pedagogy, academic characteristics, legitimate culture, power relations between the groups, linguistic capital, cultural arbitraries Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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twofold arbitrariness, pedagogic agency, content inculcated, grandes dcoles, dominant cultural arbitrary, legitimate addressees, pedagogic communication, informative efficiency, pedagogic action, pedagogic message, pedagogic relation, pedagogic work, spontaneous sociology, symbolic mastery, pedagogic authority, cultural arbitrariness, social conservation, given social formation, symbolic imposition, explicit pedagogy, academic characteristics, legitimate culture, power relations between the groups, linguistic capital, cultural arbitraries Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- The Social Contract (Penguin Classics) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau on page 2
- The Bureaucratic Phenomenon by Michel Crozier on page 212
- Diverted Dream by Steven G. Brint in Front Matter
- Education and Sociology by Emile Durkheim in Front Matter
- RLE: China: Confucian China and its Modern Fate: Volume One: The Problem of Intellectual Continuity (China: History, Philosophy, Economics) by Joseph R. Levenson on page 139
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- After Bourdieu: Influence, Critique, Elaboration by David L. Swartz on 6 pages
- Culture and Power: The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu by David Swartz on 4 pages
- Understanding Bourdieu by Jen Webb on page 3, page 105, and Back Matter
- School Management & Pupil Behaviour (Education and Alienation) by Neville Jones on page 42, and page 264
- Cultural Studies and Cultural Value by John Frow on page 30, and page 172
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