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Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture

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ISBN-10: 0803983204

ISBN-13: 9780803983205

Edition: 2nd 1990 (Revised)

Authors: Pierre Bourdieu, Jean-Claude Passeron

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $73.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Limited
Publication date: 10/1/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Preface to the Second Edition
Foreword
Foundations of A Theory Of Symbolic Violence
Keeping Order
Cultural Capital and Pedagogic Communication
The Literate Tradition and Social Conservation
Exclusion and Selection
Dependence through Independence
Appendix
The Changing Structure of Higher Education Opportunities
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