Pierre Bourdieu argues that the education system plays a key role in reproducing social hierarchies and the distribution of cultural capital among social classes. The education system transmits the dominant culture of the ruling class from one generation to the next. An individual's cultural capital, acquired primarily from their family upbringing, determines their success in the education system. This ensures the education system sanctions and reproduces the existing distribution of cultural capital among classes. In this way, the education system fulfills its function of maintaining social order and the power relationships between classes.

1. Cultural Reproduction and Social
Reproduction
Pierre Bourdieu
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2. Contents
• Overview
• Role of the education in the reproduction of the structure
of the distribution of the cultural capital
• Cultural reproduction and social reproduction

3. Keywords
cultural capital, economical capital, class, education,
social relations, cultural reproduction , cultural goods, symbolic goods
• The contribution made by educational system to the reproduction of
structure of power relationships and symbolic relationships between
classes, by contributing to the reproduction of the structure of the
distribution of the cultural capital among these classes.
• Culture is transmitted from generation to generation through the
educational system of the ruling class
• Cultural capital is the characteristics given by families of individuals', such
as their lingustic and cultural competence, habits, social style, the
cultural qualities.
• According to Bourdieu, the amaount of the cultural capital of an individual
determines the success rate in education system

4. Role of the education in the reproduction of the structure
of the distribution of the cultural capital
• Cultural transmission
• Theatre, concert,museum attendences are all inheritance of cultural wealth.
• Cultural goods as symbolic goods, constitute culture
• Class sections; lower position, intermediate position, higher position
Higher postition
Level of
education
(relationship more cultural activities ,
between cultural cultural consumption
practices)

5. Role of the education in the reproduction of the structure
of the distribution of the cultural capital
-The educational system produces all the structure of the distribution of
the cultural capital among the classes.
-Lingusitic and cultural competence and relationship of familiarity with
culture which can be only produced by family upbringing when it transmits
the dominant culture.
-Monopoly of social classes , dominant class transmits the culture, their own
means
-Monopoly of the instruments of appropriation of dominant culture and thus
their monopoly of that culture

6. Role of the education in the reproduction of the structure
of the distribution of the cultural capital
- A class which is richest in cultural capital have higher educational value and
social yield of academic qualifications.
- Symbolic products are educational norms of those social classes capable of
imposing the domination of criteria of evaluation .
- Their symbolic and economic values depend on recognized values of
academic market.

7. Cultural reproduction and social reproduction
• Reproduction social hierarchies by converting them in to academic
hierarchies; education system fulfills the fuction of social order as the
evalution of power relationship between classes.
• Cultural and educational transmissions strengthen or taken over by
economic transmissions
• System of strategies of reproduction
• Academic market tends to sanction and reproduce the distribution of the
cultural capital bequated by family

8. Cultural reproduction and social reproduction
• cultural capital economic capital
High Low High Low
Teachers Heads of industry Heads of industry Teachers
Economic capital possesion of power
Sections rich with cultural capital invest for their children’s education and
cultural practices, have larger proportion of educational institutions
Sections rich with economic capital invest for benefit of economic investments

9. Cultural reproduction and social reproduction
• The dominant hierarchy within the educational institution- hierarchy
which orders institutions in terms of proportion of those sections richest in
cultural capital figuring in public
• The dominant hierarchy outside the educational institution- hierarchy
which orders institutions in terms of proportion of those sections richest in
economic capital and according the positions in hierarchy of economic
capital and professions they lead.
• The reproduction of the structure of relations between the sections of the
dominat classes make full use of its own principles of hierarchical ordering.
• Diploma is all indispensible for those whose families are less favored in
economic,social and cultural capital.