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Education:preview Of Reproduction Of Social Stratum A Study On Two Senior High School In City H

Posted on:2011-09-21Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:H GuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117360308976463Subject:Sociology
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At present, the expansion of education scale doesn't promote education distribution in the balance between social class, the investigation found that student's schooling and family's social class were Corresponding, the upper and middle family's children kept the advantages of education. Modern society, schooling has a close relationship of individuals'orientation of social class, education has become a necessary means of locating one's social class status, therefore,unequal distribution of education between the social class, previewed the reproduction of social class to a certain extent. Based on the analysis of educational process ,we found that the correspondence between education's receiving and social background implied a set of mechanisms and strategies in the education process, through which, education reproduced the existing social strata's relationship to some extent. In the whole process of education, high school as a preparatory stage of university education, played an important role in access to higher education and thus affecting the future orientation of social class. Therefore, this article selected high school and conducted an exploratory study to the two school samples in H city .It absorb and learn from Bourdieu's theory in cultural reproduction, based on the educational process, It deepen the excavation of the social class reproduction mechanisms from the family and school.In China, school classification is the first led by the national interests of institutional arrangements and the results of long-term historical changes. In the nation-oriented interest, the key schools and ordinary schools'mobilization of capital continued differentiation. Key schools are easy to get all kinds of resources and related preferential policies from government, More importantly, it can successfully transform the system of capital for the school's economic capital, cultural capital and social capital, but ordinary schools are at a disadvantage in these areas. In the case of disparity in educational resources, different schools formed the school culture in line with their educational status. The survey found that key schools and ordinary schools'teachers and students show the cultural differences which correspond to the cultural habitus learned in the family, the class habitus is the result of long-term family capital investment and transformation.Angle from the family education, We found that upper families often successfully transformed the rich economic capital, cultural capital and social capital into their children's cultural capital and thus receive a good education; Lack of capitals, the lower family's transforming ability is weak, their children are easily diverted to the ordinary schools. Upper family's ability of capital adapt to the school's culture, school education relies on the consistency of family and school culture. Obviously, the lower students Performed weak in the process of capital transformation and adaptation to school culture, they had to pay more than the efforts of top students, even so, in the hierarchical strategy within school, they are often in a marginalized order.In the process of school education, the selection and separation which measured by academic standards of education covered up the corresponding relationship between the number of capital and its'ability to transform in the family and School Culture. Meanwhile, the inner school is continually manufacturing the consistent level of social class, this manufacturing process also covered in the students'different temperament, efforts and desires. Schools keep creating hierarchical level of "good students" and "poor students" role, class stratification of "good Class" and "poor class" ,subjects stratification of "key discipline" and "non-key subjects". Various forms correspondence between schools'stratification and social classes seems to be the natural result, In fact, the school enhanced correspondence by subtle way, involved in the reconstruction of social class ,and through a series of disciplinary measures to strengthen the students admitted for this hierarchy.Through analysis we found, although high school education was not determine one's future social class position, in this stage of education, all Strata have begun a clear differentiation. This division continued and strengthened social class inequalities in education, and reproduced the social class to some extent. Reproduction of education and social class was covered on a series of educational strategy, educational status of students was the result of both domestic capital transformation and the classification of schools of education, the school's classification technique is based on the cultural basis of family. School education and family background formed a tacit agreement, push the students to the setting track of social mobility. Thus, we examined the applicability of Bourdieu's cultural reproduction theory in a certain range from two high schools in China, further deepen the research of relationship between education and social class.
Keywords/Search Tags:Class reproduction, Education process, Cultural Capital, Habitus
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