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Social Psychology (10th Edition)

10th Edition

ISBN:9780134641287

Author:Elliot Aronson, Timothy D. Wilson, Robin M. Akert, Samuel R. Sommers

Publisher:Elliot Aronson, Timothy D. Wilson, Robin M. Akert, Samuel R. Sommers

Chapter1: Introducing Social Psychology

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How does education transmit culture through social control?

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Introduction

Throughout the tradition of educational sociology, there has been a transition away from macro questions of schooling and social change and the notion of people's input-output in education. To a stronger emphasis on topics such as curriculum change, teacher-pupil relationships, and the creation of pupil identities, in other words, the nuanced question of how culture is conveyed through classrooms.

Explanation

Concerning the transmission of culture in classrooms, in which relatively permanent cultural dispositions are internalized by socialization and schooling, and these, in turn, play a role in structuring individual and collective attitudes in ways that appear to replicate existing social class structures.

The reality of unequal distributions of cultural capital among social groups in terms of educational attainment and cultural consumption patterns
For good measure, academic success is related to cultural history. Children's academic performance is more closely linked to their parents' school performance background compared to their parents' occupational status.
The educational framework retranslates the original extent of educational opportunity and the sum of inherited cultural resources into distinctively academic characteristics.
Without minimizing this interaction to mere class determinism, the selective schooling process to social-class composition is systematically applied.