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This paper explores Pierre Bourdieu's major concepts that help us to understand his theory on education. Bourdieu discusses the forms of inequalities in education and the field of...
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Bourdieu, Esquisse d’une théorie de la practique (Geneva: Librarie Droz, 1972), 178–79, where Bourdieu writes that habitus is to be “understood as a system of durable and transposable dispositions which, integrating all past experiences, functions in every moment as a matrix
The French social Pierre Bourdieu became known as a key sociologist of education from the 1970s, contributing seminal books and articles to the “new” sociology of education, which focuses on knowledge formation in the classroom and institutional relations.
Bourdieu was led to disassociate the sociology of class from the project of theoretically specifying boundaries between classes for a number of reasons.
In Homo Academicus [1984], Bourdieu proposed an analysis of the field of higher education in France prior to and during the events of May 1968, investigating correspondences between scholars’ social and symbolic capital, their career paths, research interests and outlooks; and he included his own career and research activities in this review.
Bourdieu’s theory of cultural reproduction has been highly influen-tial within the sociology of education. This paper will provide a critical introduction to Bourdieu’s theory regarding the cultural reproduction of educational advantage, and an overview of the empirical literature on cultural reproduction.
The core of the book contains detail of the practical applications of Bourdieu’s theories to a series of specific pedagogic studies, with the intention of showing how the ideas have been used in practice. Diane Reay examines the relationship between home and the school in terms of gender differences.
