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Courses Under The Domination Of The Symbolic Power Of Cultural Capital Operation Research

Posted on:2009-10-16Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:S Q LuoFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117360242997020Subject:Curriculum and pedagogy
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"Educational theories belong not only to technology, but also to culture, ideology, and politics". Curriculum, being a research field, is involved in the substantial, technological issues, and even more in the social politics, which represents the cultural essence in terms of socially politic ideology. Thus, the reveal of the socially political process of the curriculum can provide new perspective, theory and methodology, which in turn make it possible to explore some basic issues regarding curriculum research field from the doctrinal viewpoint.Denotation power takes effect snugly by means of capital working in its operational process. However, due to the fact that the curriculum has different states and operational stages, the investigation of curriculum cultural capital can be accomplished in its operational stages. This paper, starting with cultural capital theory in the cultural sociology, aims at analyzing the control of power and the essence of the ideological reproduction in the operational process of curriculum cultural capital and the important role played by curriculum cultural capital in the structure of reproducing social structure, by researching the operation of curriculum cultural capital under the dominance of denotation power from the perspective of holography and relationism.Curriculum can represent and take the function of denotation power only when regarding as cultural capital. Starting with the question of whether curriculum can be a cultural capital, this paper explores the significance of curriculum as a culture with the evolving of the culture, then locates the condition for culture as capital from the development of concept of capital, finally explicates the capital reality and features of curriculum as culture. Under the presupposition of the establishment of the preposition that curriculum can be a cultural capital, this paper explores the concept, features, forms, and accumulating mechanism from the essence of both the curriculum and culture capital. Curriculum culture capital represents culture awareness and value, which entails some issues in terms of curriculum culture capital, i. e. Who proposes the culture awareness and value? In what way are they chosen? Are these ways unanimously accepted or strange to all? However, the essence of these issues is under which condition and under whose domination the curriculum culture capital operates. Exploring these issues from the perspective of culture sociology, this paper definitudes the curriculum's social political process, in which curriculum culture capital entails multiple power control so as to realize its denotation power.After the explication of denotation power manner of curriculum culture capital, this paper deals with the denotation power's form and essence in aspects of production, circulation, consumption, and measurement in chapter 4, 5, 6, and 7 respectively. To begin with, this paper explicates the cultural features and the motivation of the pursuit for rights and benefits, and further analyzes the function of power in curriculum cultural capital production. By means of which, this paper holds that it represents not only in the main stream's class ideology, but in various power relations of curriculum culture capital as a special production field with an eye to capturing more and more denotation capital to exercise maximal denotation power for the fulfillment of its benefits. Secondly, this paper analyzes the circulation of curriculum culture capital, the conceited control, and the realization of denotation power from two aspects of cultural value and culturally commodity features. Thirdly, this paper deals with various right relations between consumption subjects in schools as market, the control logic of denotation power in consumption process, and the reproduction essence of consumption results. Last but not least, this paper, by analyzing the reproduction essence of curriculum culture capital, holds that main stream class entails the current culture as an evaluation standard for the maintenance of its reproduction. Although the current culture is ostensibly the learning constructive object for all students, it reproduces original social structure because of exceptional measure for the distinction of students belonging to different classes.The attentive exploration of the essence of curriculum from the new perspective of Bourdieu comes to a natural conclusion: the operational process of curriculum culture capital fully represents the purport of denotation power, and different stages of which contribute to the denotation power, maintain the benefits of privilege class, and the reproduction of current social structure. The discussion of the essence of curriculum within the above mentioned framework will be undoubtedly involved in social determinism. The only way out is to response to the theory per se and practical problems provoked by it. This paper deals with inner presupposition overpassing the social determinism from Bourdieu's theory and some relevant theories, and puts forward logic thought of reflecting practice of curriculum culture capital, the operation thought of leading to right curriculum culture capital, and compensation and exploitation strategies of curriculum culture capital.
Keywords/Search Tags:culture capital, curriculum culture capital, denotation power, reproduction, ideology
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