Article

Maira Juliana Fontecha

Escuela Colombiana de Rehabilitación

práctica nivel 1
Bogotá D.C
25 de marzo del 2020
 Bourdieu’s Social
Reproduction Thesis and The
Role of Cultural Capital in
Educational Attainment: A
Critical Review of Key
Empirical Studies
Introduction
(Bourdieu and Passeron, 1977) has
focused on researching the
relationship between education,
family and social class.
Contextualisation
•
Bourdieu offers a paradigm of
analysis that explains the
persistent inequalities in
educational stratification
 Bourdieu’s Social Reproduction Thesis:
Cultural Capital, Habitus and Schools
• Cultural capital refers to transmissible
parental cultural codes and practices

• The habit simply referred to the

occupational expectations of
adolescents.
 Empirical Evidence
Influence of Family and Habitus on
Children
Influence of the School and
Teachers
Conclusions
• The association of the cultural capital of
parents or children with an educational
level is weak and problematic.

• All teachers impose the dominant cultural

capital on their students in an
unquestionable way.