Wednesday, July 20, 2011

7/21 Silvestri Bourdieu Lareau Facilitation Questions

Pierre Bourdieu: “The Forms of Capital”

  1. Page 245: In order to gain cultural capital, one must spend time. How might a strong economic capital allow a person to gain cultural capital?
  2. Page 248: What can the power to impose recognition do to cultural capital? How might this affect a person’s view of the acquisition of cultural capital?
  3. Page 249: What do you think of the means of possessing a volume of social capital? How can you relate this idea to a student’s means of acquiring social mobility today?
  4. What role does recognition play in social capital? How does this concept of recognition in relation to social capital affect society today? How, if at all, might multicultural education affect recognition? Lareau speaks a bit on this relationship on page 79.

Annette Lareau “Linking Bourdieu’s concept of Capital to the Broader Field”

  1. Page 78: Why must researchers look not only at the individual, but at the institutions through which the individual seeks success?
  2. Pages 95-97: How might teachers go about earning the trust of working class and poor parents with a great distrust of the schools? Is it possible?
  3. Bonus Question! Page 79: Would I have felt better about my own reading ability if I had read Lareau before Bourdieu?

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