Human Capital Or Cultural Capital? Ethnicity and Poverty Groups in an Urban School District

This study seeks to reorient our understanding of the early educational determinants of social stratification outcomes. It focuses on the process and consequences of unequal cognitive skill attainment for ethnic and poverty groups within our nation's cities. It draws, theoretically, on the notion that experiences at home and school create a feedback loop by which the "cultural capital" of the students (their toolkit of skills, habits, and styles with which they construct strategies of action) evolves over time and largely determines differential success in mastering the teacher-assigned coursework.

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George Farkas

Summary

This study seeks to reorient our understanding of the early educational determinants of social stratification outcomes

Product details

• Authors: George Farkas
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.12.1996
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work
• EAN: 9780202305233
• ISBN: 978-0-202-30523-3
• Pages: 216
• Series: Social Institutions and Social Change; Social Institutions and Social Change Series; Social Institutions and Social Change Series
• Subjects: Ethnic Studies, EDUCATION / Special Education / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Teaching of students with different educational needs, Urban communities, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Urban communities / city life, Educational Inequality, sociological analysis, urban education research, minority student achievement, family environment effects, academic performance predictors, cognitive skill development factors