Educational Inequality And Class Reproduction

In recent years, the equality of education becomes the main focus of attention in China. School has always been seen as lubrication of social mobility. But in reality, education is a tool of class reproduction. The article uses the conception framework of one of well-known scholars in French--P.Bourdieu~to analyze the relation between inequality in education and reproduction of class. The article creatively relates three kinds of capital defined by P.Bourdieu with the inequality in educational opportunity, educational process and educational consequence respectively. As the result, how class is reproduced by education is presented.The change in admission policy in China results in the expansion of enrollment chances. Nevertheless, this does not directly lead to educational equality. A lot of people from the bottom of social pyramid can't get into universities because of the soaring tuition fee.Cultural capital is a kind of resources that intervene in educational process. Children brought up in families with abundant cultural capital tend to be more excellent in learning than those from social marginal group.The labor market is the field in which one compares social capital with the other. Families with high socio-economic status possess more social capital. Naturally,...