On Reproduction in education, society and culture, 50 years later
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https://doi.org/10.22325/fes/res.2022.115Keywords:
reproduction, educational inequalities, Bourdieu, Passeron, resistanceAbstract
Reproduction in education, society and culture is still alive. This paper analyses the central theses of the book in order to assess their current validity. Then, it examines some of the objections that emerged later and contributed to the consideration of its contents as obsolete. Education systems still contribute to the reproduction of social classes in contemporary societies, conditioning social mobility and the constitution of elites, although with some variations in the last fifty years. Despite the democratization of education systems and the increase in university graduates, the problem of elitism in the education system denounced by Bourdieu and Passeron has not been solved, and neither has education been transformed. Economic and cultural triage, as well as new subtle selection mechanisms, cause reproductive mechanisms of inequalities to fully operate.
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