An Evaluation of the Role of School Institution in the Reproduction of Cultural-Social Inequalities and of Privileges

This study aims to examine the effects of institutional habitus on education in the context of cultural and social inequalities. Cultural and social inequalities, shaped by the determinants of social origin and social environment, are maintained within the school as an institutional structure. The s...

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Main Authors: Eren Ağın, Duygun Göktürk
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Language:English
Published: Ankara University 2020-04-01
Series:Ankara Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Fakültesi Dergisi
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Online Access:https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/1032956
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description This study aims to examine the effects of institutional habitus on education in the context of cultural and social inequalities. Cultural and social inequalities, shaped by the determinants of social origin and social environment, are maintained within the school as an institutional structure. The school includes participation and certain types of behaviors formed under the influence of normative structures; has public influence, legitimacy and recognition; and as a stable structure is based on certain internal working mechanisms and assets. This article examines how forms of cultural and social inequality deepen within the school habitus, and how they become invisible through formal equality in the acquisition of knowledge and in the context of symbolic partnership. This study is based on three major texts: Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron’s “The Inheritors: French Students and Their Relations to Culture”, Paul Willis’s “Learning to Labour: How Working-Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs”, and Signithia Fordham and John U. Ogbu’s “Black Students’ School Success: Coping with the Burden of Acting White.” This study reveals how social and cultural inequalities are reproduced within the school habitus through the determination of professional preferences based on students’ class, cultural habitus and reference codes, and informal group identities.
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spelling doaj-art-16741ee1f79e420aa92cc31187300c8b2025-01-29T09:14:55ZengAnkara UniversityAnkara Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Fakültesi Dergisi1301-37182020-04-0153132935410.30964/auebfd.59752245An Evaluation of the Role of School Institution in the Reproduction of Cultural-Social Inequalities and of PrivilegesEren Ağın0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8497-2197Duygun Göktürk1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-6326T.C. MİLLİ EĞİTİM BAKANLIĞIORTA DOĞU TEKNİK ÜNİVERSİTESİThis study aims to examine the effects of institutional habitus on education in the context of cultural and social inequalities. Cultural and social inequalities, shaped by the determinants of social origin and social environment, are maintained within the school as an institutional structure. The school includes participation and certain types of behaviors formed under the influence of normative structures; has public influence, legitimacy and recognition; and as a stable structure is based on certain internal working mechanisms and assets. This article examines how forms of cultural and social inequality deepen within the school habitus, and how they become invisible through formal equality in the acquisition of knowledge and in the context of symbolic partnership. This study is based on three major texts: Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron’s “The Inheritors: French Students and Their Relations to Culture”, Paul Willis’s “Learning to Labour: How Working-Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs”, and Signithia Fordham and John U. Ogbu’s “Black Students’ School Success: Coping with the Burden of Acting White.” This study reveals how social and cultural inequalities are reproduced within the school habitus through the determination of professional preferences based on students’ class, cultural habitus and reference codes, and informal group identities.https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/1032956cultural-social inequalityinstitutional habitusreproductionpierre bourdieujean-claude passeronpaul willissignithia fordham and john ogbukültürel-toplumsal eşitsizlikkurumsal habituspierre bourdieupaul willisjohn u. ogbusignithia fordham
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An Evaluation of the Role of School Institution in the Reproduction of Cultural-Social Inequalities and of Privileges
Ankara Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Fakültesi Dergisi
cultural-social inequality
institutional habitus
reproduction
pierre bourdieu
jean-claude passeron
paul willis
signithia fordham and john ogbu
kültürel-toplumsal eşitsizlik
kurumsal habitus
pierre bourdieu
paul willis
john u. ogbu
signithia fordham
title An Evaluation of the Role of School Institution in the Reproduction of Cultural-Social Inequalities and of Privileges
title_full An Evaluation of the Role of School Institution in the Reproduction of Cultural-Social Inequalities and of Privileges
title_fullStr An Evaluation of the Role of School Institution in the Reproduction of Cultural-Social Inequalities and of Privileges
title_full_unstemmed An Evaluation of the Role of School Institution in the Reproduction of Cultural-Social Inequalities and of Privileges
title_short An Evaluation of the Role of School Institution in the Reproduction of Cultural-Social Inequalities and of Privileges
title_sort evaluation of the role of school institution in the reproduction of cultural social inequalities and of privileges
topic cultural-social inequality
institutional habitus
reproduction
pierre bourdieu
jean-claude passeron
paul willis
signithia fordham and john ogbu
kültürel-toplumsal eşitsizlik
kurumsal habitus
pierre bourdieu
paul willis
john u. ogbu
signithia fordham
url https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/1032956
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