Class structure and class reproduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 100-143
Author(s):  
Andreas Küchle
Keyword(s):  
Class Structure ◽  
Class Reproduction

Toward a (Re)Integrated Application of Bordieuan Theory

2021 ◽  
pp. 004208592110165
Author(s):  
Patricia McDonough ◽  
Elvira J. Abrica
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Class Structure ◽  
Educational Inequalities ◽  
Class Reproduction ◽  
Cultural Forces ◽  
Structure Class

Bourdieu’s critical analysis of capital (BCAC) is a useful tool for unmasking how schools legitimate class structure and identifying the institutional, societal, and cultural forces that structure class reproduction and oppression. In this paper, we examine the ways educational researchers have constrained the critical application of Bourdieu’s concepts. We highlight the utility of BCAC for exposing the symbolic violence that educational systems enact upon students and families who are unfamiliar with the “culture of power.” Our purpose is to engage in a revitalized critique against the reproduction of educational inequalities and explicate how BCAC is useful toward these ends.

Scheming

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seán Damer
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Class Structure ◽  
Local Council ◽  
Housing Scheme ◽  
Post War ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Voice ◽  
House Building

This book seeks to explain how the Corporation of Glasgow, in its large-scale council house-building programme in the inter- and post-war years, came to reproduce a hierarchical Victorian class structure. The three tiers of housing scheme which it constructed – Ordinary, Intermediate, and Slum-Clearance – effectively signified First, Second and Third Class. This came about because the Corporation uncritically reproduced the offensive and patriarchal attitudes of the Victorian bourgeoisie towards the working-class. The book shows how this worked out on the ground in Glasgow, and describes the attitudes of both authoritarian housing officials, and council tenants. This is the first time the voice of Glasgow’s council tenants has been heard. The conclusion is that local council housing policy was driven by unapologetic considerations of social class.

Approximation of adsorption heats of carbon monoxide on transition metals by means of an empirical model

1983 ◽  
Vol 48 (10) ◽  
pp. 2735-2739
Author(s):  
Jiří Fusek ◽  
Oldřich Štrouf ◽  
Karel Kuchynka
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Monoxide ◽  
Heat Capacity ◽  
Transition Metals ◽  
Molar Heat Capacity ◽  
Metal Adsorption ◽  
Heat Of Fusion ◽  
Class Structure ◽  
Fundamental Parameters ◽  
Adsorption Heats ◽  
Pauling Electronegativity

The class structure of transition metals chemisorbing carbon monoxide was determined by expressing the following fundamental parameters in the form of functions: The molar heat capacity, the 1st and 2nd ionization energy, the heat of fusion, Pauling electronegativity, the electric conductivity, Debye temperature, the atomic volume of metal. Adsorption heats have been predicted for twelve transition metals.

scholarly journals Running up a Down-Escalator in the Middle of a Class Structure Gone Pear-Shaped

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Ainley ◽  
Martin Allen
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Widening Participation ◽  
Class Structure ◽  
Private Providers

Whilst widening participation to higher education was approaching New Labour's target of 50% of 18-30s (for women at least), it was presented as a professionalisation of the proletariat but in reality and in hindsight it can be seen to have disguised a proletarianisation of the professions - for which HE supposedly prepares its graduates - with many reduced to para-professions at best. It is argued therefore that education as a whole faces a credibility crunch. However, many have nowhere else to go since without qualifications they face falling into the so-called ‘underclass’ which was widely seen to have manifested itself in the riots of summer 2011. Like other commentators, we point out that the majority of youth did not riot and focus instead upon the children of the new working-middle class who are running up a down-escalator of devalued qualifications. This only intensifies national hysteria about education as the Coalition's reception of Browne's Review restricts competitive academic HE entry to those who can afford tripled fees, while relegating those who cannot to ‘Apprenticeships Without Jobs’ (cf. Finn 1987 ) in FE and private providers. With reference to Allen and Ainley (2011) , this paper speculates as to the likely outcome of this generational crisis.

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