PART 1
The main point raised by Gloria Ladson-Billings about the concept of culture is to emphasize the lack of knowledge about culture in our society. Ladson-Billings explains the reason for the failure in education of minorities is due to the fact that teachers do not know how to adapt their teaching skills to help a child who is not like them, which they consider to be “normal”. I agree with her reasoning because students are unique and their ways of learning and grasping information all range differently. Students with culture can still learn and succeed without having a labeled to explain their flaws.
Frederick Erickson’s concept of culture is explained by how cultures have subcultures. People in different parts of the world might alter some aspects of their main culture resulting in a “new” culture. I agree with Erickson because when a certain ethnicity moves away from their homeland and into a different society, there are factors in life that influence and alter the traditional values of a culture. People must modify their culture in order to evolve.
Lamont & Lareau set out to defuse the confusion behind the definition of cultural capital expressed by previous sociologist. They expanded and redefined cultural capital as “widely shared, legitimate culture made up of high status cultural signals (attitudes, preferences, behaviors, and …show more content…
The exclusion from “high status groups” includes characteristics that reflect the dominant class (Lamont & Lareau 153). I agree with the argument made by Lamont & Lareau because the extremities of cultural capital have dictated a person’s social ranking in the hierarchy of class. People are using their culture, social and economic ranking, as advantages or even disadvantages to move up in society and thus determine who is allowed to stand with them or fall beneath
The main point raised by Gloria Ladson-Billings about the concept of culture is to emphasize the lack of knowledge about culture in our society. Ladson-Billings explains the reason for the failure in education of minorities is due to the fact that teachers do not know how to adapt their teaching skills to help a child who is not like them, which they consider to be “normal”. I agree with her reasoning because students are unique and their ways of learning and grasping information all range differently. Students with culture can still learn and succeed without having a labeled to explain their flaws.
Frederick Erickson’s concept of culture is explained by how cultures have subcultures. People in different parts of the world might alter some aspects of their main culture resulting in a “new” culture. I agree with Erickson because when a certain ethnicity moves away from their homeland and into a different society, there are factors in life that influence and alter the traditional values of a culture. People must modify their culture in order to evolve.
Lamont & Lareau set out to defuse the confusion behind the definition of cultural capital expressed by previous sociologist. They expanded and redefined cultural capital as “widely shared, legitimate culture made up of high status cultural signals (attitudes, preferences, behaviors, and …show more content…
The exclusion from “high status groups” includes characteristics that reflect the dominant class (Lamont & Lareau 153). I agree with the argument made by Lamont & Lareau because the extremities of cultural capital have dictated a person’s social ranking in the hierarchy of class. People are using their culture, social and economic ranking, as advantages or even disadvantages to move up in society and thus determine who is allowed to stand with them or fall beneath