Pierre Bourdieu: Social Class Inequalities In Education

There has always been social class inequalities within education in the 19th to 20th century education was intended to reinforce a class structure based on ascription for birth to wealth (Tomlinson 2005) . Even to this day it seems that as a society we need a class structure to categorise who fits into what parts of society. In 1866 a major schools inquiry report stated that different social classes needed different levels of teaching as to what jobs their social classes could do (tomlinson 2005). This eassy references Pierre Bourdieu a lot as he is such a well standing figure with in education studies and his concepts of cultural capital shape how many authors look at discipline’s with in