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Social Reproduction in Classrooms and Schools

Collins, James·2009·Annual Review of Anthropology
DOI 10.1146/annurev.anthro.37.081407.085242
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Social reproduction theory argues that schools are not institutions of equal opportunity but mechanisms for perpetuating social inequalities. This review discusses the emergence and development of social reproduction analyses of education and examines three main perspectives on reproduction: economic, cultural, and linguistic. Reproduction analyses emerged in the 1960s and were largely abandoned by the 1990s; some of the conceptual and political reasons for this turning away are addressed. New approaches stress concepts such as agency, identity, person, and voice over the structural constraints of political economy or code, but results have been mixed. Despite theoretical and methodological advances—including new approaches to multilevel analysis and alertness to temporal processes—the difficult problem remains to understand how social inequality results from the interplay of classrooms, schools, and the wider society.

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Authors
Collins, J.
Venue
Annual Review of Anthropology
Publisher
Annual Reviews
Published
2009-10-01
Volume
38
Issue
1
Pages
33-48
ISSN
  • 0084-6570 (ISSN-L)
  • 1545-4290
DOI
10.1146/annurev.anthro.37.081407.085242
OpenAlex
W2160150790
Cited by
304
References
123
FWCI
6.85
Type
journal article
Language
en
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