SEEING EDUCATION RELATIONALLY: THE “BOTTOM AND THE TOP”

Abstract

Education perpetuates inequality directly, in that messages distributed by schools are linked to student social class. A specific focus on the response of white working‐class and minority students' attitudes to school (in the USA) reveals that elites maintain themselves not only through their own education but also through the education of others; and that those at the bottom contribute to the maintenance of class structure through their own creative response to wider ranging inequalities, and the way these inequalities are mediated in schools.

Citation

Weis, L. (1985), "SEEING EDUCATION RELATIONALLY: THE “BOTTOM AND THE TOP”", International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 5 No. 4, pp. 61-73. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb012996