Question

Pierre Bourdieu worked to understand the relationship between class, culture, and power by studying schools in France with the expectation of finding that social mobility was the result of meritocracy. What did he discover instead? a. The educational system helped reproduce existing social relations by passing class positions from generation to generation in a family. b. Social reproduction tended to disappear after one generation of children had completed school. c. Social isolation took place due to the high rate of parental involvement.

Answer 1

Answer:

The answer is A- The educational system helped reproduce existing social relations by passing class positions from gen to gen in a family

Explanation:

In the late 1960s Pierre Bourdieu studied the French educational system and noticed that the middle school students tended to persist through school while working-class students on the other hand had higher drop out rates. He argued that the educational system reproduced existing social class structure through a mechanism called cultural capital which was recognized and rewarded by teachers and the school system and it was the kind that was possessed by the middle and upper classes.

Cultural capital is the accumulation of behaviors, knowledge, skills which a person can tap into to demonstrate their cultural competence and social status. It is used to reinforce class differences.