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Elements for a theory of the teaching system
– Bourdieu Pierre and Passeron Jean-Claude
The maintenance of order
social - Summary
Jorgelina Fernández Rotela
The research of these authors seeks to determine pedagogical action as a
simple relationship of communication and measuring its performance, that is, determining the factors
social and educational factors of the success of pedagogical communication through the analysis of the
variations in communication performance based on social characteristics and
schoolchildren of the receivers.
To measure the performance of a teaching system, the performance of the
pedagogical communication constitutes one of the most reliable indicators of productivity
specific to pedagogical work.
Education is the fundamental agent of reproduction and the structure of the
power relations and the symbolic relationships between classes, emphasizes the importance of the
cultural capital inherited in the family as a key to success in school, its analysis focuses on:
the traditional principles that govern the curriculum, the methods of transmission and evaluation
school
Bourdieu shows that inequality occurs in the categories of students having
taking into account their social origin among others. In this regard, it states that students from classes
the media and popular individuals access higher education necessarily with a selection process.
demanding, and that the first years of schooling are marked by understanding and the
language management, this is the influence of the linguistic capital it exerts on them. Hence its
definition of language that is not just a tool for communication, but also provides
in addition to a more or less rich vocabulary, a more or less complex system of categories,
so that the ability to decipher and manipulate complex structures, whether logical or aesthetic,
it partly depends on the complexity of the language transmitted by the family. In addition to being the
language a mechanism of communication that within a pedagogical relationship provides a
linguistic capital; it is an element that enables exclusion and control by the classes
superiors. That is why it speaks of a serious inequality in the field of education that is evident,
despite the homogeneous educational discourse, how the ethos, social and cultural capital of the
subjects depend on the social class of origin.
In the material, the authors explain how the social class of origin determines the
social class to which it will arrive and the behavior during the process of arriving to it.
It deduces that the school system shapes individuals through a process of indoctrination that is the
the basis of cultural and social reproduction. Those who do not acquire this training are excluded, already
that the system imposes a dominant culture on them, which implies renouncing their own culture, in
other words subject to a set of rules, values, and beliefs that are often not
consistent with their lifestyle.
The teaching system is the same as the communication system. The school through its
The technical function of communication preserves and legitimizes power relations and structures.
It teaches a culture of a specific social group that occupies a position of power in the
social structure; the one that is reproduced through pedagogical action, which always tends to
to reproduce the structure of the distribution of cultural capital in front of those groups or classes,
contributing to the reproduction of the social structure, defined as the reproduction of the
structure of the power relations between classes.
Enlightened tradition and social conservation is a chapter of the book, where the authors
they explain how through pedagogical authority and the authority of language, legitimacy is established.
symbolic imposition of the dominant classes.
The authors believe that the permanence of socio-economic systems of the
capitalist society is linked to arbitrary cultural reproduction, which in turn contributes
to social reproduction. The school, therefore, has the mission to instill, transmit and
preserve the dominant culture by imposing a cultural paradigm; reproduce the social structure
and their class relations; and finally, to hide their lack of freedom by framing their ideologies
according to the prevailing regime.
To fulfill its mission, it gives the professor, who is the most direct instance of transmission.
cultural, the responsibility of the trainer and pedagogical authority. This one exercises its functions
through their pedagogical actions, but all of them dominated and subjected to the classes
dominant, where cultural arbitrariness is taught, those that are instruments of domination and
reproduction, thus culture reproduces itself and all pedagogical action becomes violence
symbolic. Language is configured as a device of control and legitimization of the
power structures, which is used by the teacher to exercise their pedagogical authority.
to the students and thus be more effective in the task of maintaining order
That is why, by internalizing these arbitrary principles, they become habitual, as if
somehow they belonged to us; immortalizing the social power, acquired in the family and in
the social class and that serve as a basis for us to be able to act subsequently.
Therefore, the school teaches us to obey, to be loyal to the system by legitimizing the
habits, practices, values, and a set of norms classified as valid. It should seek the
cultural capital of the student, which is related to everything that the regime wants
that internal. Although the author considers it a constant, it proposes that in order for
In order for there to be a change, it is necessary to transform pedagogical practices; that is to say, it would be necessary
that an educational action be taken aimed at instilling another relationship with the
language and culture.
Teachers are always attentive to the language their students use, which often...
It sometimes differs from the academic language, which is indeed important in the market when a
young dominates it, this language is, ultimately what establishes a relationship between the origin
social and social success. In other words, to the extent that we possess more knowledge
university students and if we know how to use them, mastering the imposed cultural capital, we will be able to
climbing the social class and being successful.
Bourdieu's theory can be synthesized by saying that whenever there is a society,
there should be a regime that imposes a cultural capital on us, which is often inherited from
generation after generation until a crisis arises that ultimately changes the system
economic and social on one hand, often better on the other. The cultured classes possess a set of
knowledge that allows them to perpetuate themselves in power. The communication relationships are arbitrary and
legitimate the structures and the order established by the dominant classes. The arbitrariness in the
communication relationships create a rupture between school and extracurricular activities. The
The transformation of social structures depends on educational and communication action.
objective.
