How school funding laws contribute to social stratification and how differences in cultural capital contribute to social stratification
How school funding laws contribute to social stratification and how differences in cultural capital contribute to social stratification.
In this essay, you should quote directly from at least two of the course readings in ways that provide evidence to support your claims. Be sure to use quotation marks when quoting, and reference the work by author name and page number of the quoted text.
Here is an example: “In particular, I delineate a pattern of concerted cultivation in middle-class families and a pattern of accomplishment of natural growth in working-class and poor families” (Lareau, p. 32).
Essay: Explain how school funding laws contribute to social stratification. Also, explain how differences in cultural capital contribute to social stratification. Be sure to include the following in your answer:
A. The relationship between property taxes and unequal funding for schools.
B. How the system of school funding and its effects on different students’ education is an example of the relationship between agency and structure.
C. Give 1 example from class of differences in cultural capital between working- class and middle-class parents.
D. Briefly explain one way in which differences in parents’ cultural capital leads to differences in how kids’ educational problems get addressed or not, and give examples from class material.
E. Finally, what do you think should be done, if anything, to remedy the issue of unequal school funding in the United States? Explain using concepts from class.
Kozol Lareau Take-Away Points Topic 1 Take-Away Points Topic 2 Class Notes
How school funding laws contribute to social stratification and how differences in cultural capital contribute to social stratification.
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