Nobody can deny the effect that schools have on a child’s development. The minds of young people are especially subject to being influenced by everyone and everything around them, especially in a school setting. Education can successfully set a child up for the rest of their life, or, if it fails them, can set a child up for disappointment later in life. Other than family, schools truly are the most important source of guidance in a child’s life. However, when the situation arises (as it does quite often) that a child is failed by their schooling system, how is their development affected by it?
Social reproduction theory is essentially a theory that discusses how social inequality is passed from generation to generation. This theory is based …show more content…
Cultural capital, while often described as beliefs passed down through generations, encompasses far more than simply morals. Cultural capital also describes the influence of one’s childhood that socialization has. People who have grown up in situations where they don’t talk to a lot of adults often lack social graces that many people from middle-class households take for granted. These social graces help them communicate and know how to behave in the world of the working class. Many people from poorer and inner-city neighborhoods are so busy worrying about not getting killed or helping their mother pay the rent that they aren’t going to be spending their time doing hobbies, having minimum-wage jobs, or doing internships. This perpetrates the idea of class-based social networks and modes of behavior and thinking. Someone from a lower social class is generally a lot more likely to be thinking about survival or family first – everything else is second. Children who have grown up in dangerous environments will focus first on how they’re going to pay bills, how they’re going to get home safely, or how they’re going to keep their job far before they begin to think about abstract ideas and concepts. While this generalization is not accurate to everyone in inner-city neighborhoods, it often results from a combination of unfortunate circumstance and learned behaviors from childhood. Who can blame children for wanting to know where their next meal is coming from before wondering what the meaning of life
Social reproduction theory is essentially a theory that discusses how social inequality is passed from generation to generation. This theory is based …show more content…
Cultural capital, while often described as beliefs passed down through generations, encompasses far more than simply morals. Cultural capital also describes the influence of one’s childhood that socialization has. People who have grown up in situations where they don’t talk to a lot of adults often lack social graces that many people from middle-class households take for granted. These social graces help them communicate and know how to behave in the world of the working class. Many people from poorer and inner-city neighborhoods are so busy worrying about not getting killed or helping their mother pay the rent that they aren’t going to be spending their time doing hobbies, having minimum-wage jobs, or doing internships. This perpetrates the idea of class-based social networks and modes of behavior and thinking. Someone from a lower social class is generally a lot more likely to be thinking about survival or family first – everything else is second. Children who have grown up in dangerous environments will focus first on how they’re going to pay bills, how they’re going to get home safely, or how they’re going to keep their job far before they begin to think about abstract ideas and concepts. While this generalization is not accurate to everyone in inner-city neighborhoods, it often results from a combination of unfortunate circumstance and learned behaviors from childhood. Who can blame children for wanting to know where their next meal is coming from before wondering what the meaning of life