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Bourdieu and Passeron published La Reproduction with Éditions de Minuit in 1970, six years after their study of students, Les Héritiers. Book I, “Foundations of a Theory of Symbolic Violence”, is set out as numbered propositions with commentary, starting from the claim that all pedagogic action is objectively symbolic violence, because it imposes a cultural arbitrary by an arbitrary power. Book II applies the theory to the French education system, drawing on surveys of students’ command of language and on examination results: by valuing a relation to language and culture that pupils from educated families acquire at home, the school converts social privilege into academic merit and so helps to legitimate the existing order. Richard Nice’s English translation appeared in 1977. The book became a standard reference in the sociology of education; Raymond Boudon proposed a competing explanation in 1973 based on families’ educational decisions, and other critics found the theory too deterministic to account for change.

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• التميز: النقد الاجتماعي لرمزية الحكم1979 · بيير بورديو

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• 1979التميز: النقد الاجتماعي لرمزية الحكم