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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 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…

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  • Other · English · 2013
    Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture
    SAGE Publications, Limited · 288 pages · 9781848609297
  • Other · English · 1990
    Reproduction in education, society, and culture
    Sage in association with Theory, Culture & Society, Dept. of Administrative and Social Studies, Teesside Polytechnic · 254 pages · 9780803983199
  • Other · English · 1990
    Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture
    SAGE Publications, Incorporated · 9780585354996
  • Other · English · 1977
    Reproduction in education, society and culture
    Sage Publications · 254 pages · 9780803999947
EducationEducational sociologyPhilosophyEducation, philosophyEducation--philosophyLc189 .b613 1990