What has educational expansion and reform impacted the relationship between class and educational attainment?
Hasn’t changed the positive relationship
Bourdieu’s ideas on working class student’s?
Our dispositions are shaped in significant ways by our social milieu-> Leaving a comfortable social environment to enter a new field can cause confusion, conflict, and struggle
What is Habitus dislocation?
A painful dislocation between old and newly developed habitus, ranked hierarchically and carry connotations of inferiority and superiority
What is Habitus?
(Bourdieu) A system of lasting, transposable dispositions made up of past experiences. A matrix of perceptions, appreciations, and actions that allow us to achieve infinitely different tasks
Bourdieu argues for a ________ understanding of the relationship between…
-Dialectical
-material structures of social experience and mental structures of human agents
How are Habitus’ socially constructed?
It is the product of cultivation/appropriation necessary for objective structures in society to persevere through durable dispositions within individuals
