Schooling and Social Class in America
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Education. Social class. USA.Abstract
In this paper the relationship between social class and education is discussed and a complex definition of social class based not only on income but using more criteria such as social and cultural issues, geographic, and other aspects that interact with the school is presented. While a goal of schooling in the United States has been for this institution to provide equal opportunity, in this paper we discuss how opportunity is not equal and how this goal tends to focus on individual aspects and not in the collective aspects, structural, and institutional, that really frame the different conditions on the issue of social class. This paper also discusses how schooling in the case of the United States works to maintain a hegemonic social order to perpetuate the myth of meritocracy. It questions how the curriculum and pedagogy exert a significant relationship in social class structure.
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