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marxism and education
Pierre Bourdieu
Cultural capital theory
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teachers are influenced by middle class habitus e.g. manners and styles, ways of speaking, thinking, behaving, cultural habits, of the preferred social class.
a habitus offers guidelines for each social class, middle class habitus is seen as superior and is favored in education which offers the reason why middle class students are most likely to achieve.
economic capital = the material/ economic advantages that someone might have e.g. computer, private tuition, books etc...
cultural capital = what one knows, where one's culture (norms/ values/ language/ attitude) is an asset - m/c culture
social capital = who you know e.g. one's network of friends/ connections that are useful if you want to achieve higher professions
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Raymond Boudon
argues there is a 'cost of persistence' for w/c to stay on in education - a cost borne by the student's family and his/ her peers
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Paul Willis
summary of theory
there isn't a simple relationship between the economy and the education system; students are active participants - some of whom choose to fail (COUNTER SCHOOL SUBCULTURE)
the lads formed their own friendship group which had a counter- school subculture which was against the values of the school and doing well - they focused on 'having a laugh' to cope with the boredom they felt at school and in work. clearly just trying to cope with tedium and oppression instead of actively challenging it.
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boys reject school values and instead, seek respect from their peers in anti school subcultures - these w/c boys contributed to their own failure.
focused on 12 w/c lads in their last 18 months of school and their first few months at work. - used observation in class, recorded discussions, informal interviews and diaries
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