How education reproduces inequalities and social difference

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[...] Schooling in disadvantaged communities, playing the game from the back of the field. New York. Springer Pierre, B. (2013). Symbolic capital and social classes. Journal of Classical Sociology 13(2) 292–302 Roy, N. (1990). Bourdieu on Education and Social and Cultural Reproduction. British Journal of Sociology of Education, Vol No pp. 431-447 Valassi, D. (2012). Privileged learning or earning of privilege. [...]

[...] How education reproduces inequalities and social difference. Inequalities in the society have historically been based on stratification and the creation of classes within the society. The struggle for achievement and the existence of the society based on the individual achievements has led to the differences between different classes in the society. Class differences in society are thus based on inequalities between the abilities of the individuals within the society. Goldthorpe (2010) argues that the inequalities exist in several ways but the basic idea behind inequalities is based on the opportunities that the individual has. [...]

[...] Those with better resources in the society are able to source for better facilities that can enable them to rise up the social and economic ladder very fast. Due to these inequalities, education has been seen as both promoting and diminishing class inequalities. References Bowles, S. & Gintis, H. (1976). Schooling in Capitalist America, New York: Basic Books Byrant, J. (2006). Dare to know: Thinking sociologically. Australia, Pearson education. Dumais S.A (2002). Early childhood cultural capital, Parental Habiitus and teachers perceptions. Poetics 83-107 Field, J.(2008). [...]

[...] Cultural capital is acquired depending on social class, society and period. This means that it is linked to the biological nature of the biological nature of the individual; this makes it to combine the prestige of innate property and the individual merits. This makes it to be used a symbolic capital that is unique to the individual only and cannot be transmitted or exchanged from one person to another (Pierre 2013). Roy (1990), states that the objective state has properties that are defined by the relationship of with cultural capital. [...]

[...] The education system is thus used to produce inequalities through creating social structure at the level of the individual and the society at large. Individuals thus produce inequalities through acting on their own behalf and basing on the way the institutions train them. In democratic societies education is the course for the society t strive for equality. Students can work hard and achieve better grades that can lead to a better course and job. This means that the barriers of class may not exist within the capitalistic society where individuals are limited. [...]