Hierarchy transmits class-differentiated consciousness through families, constraining schools.

Evidence

School is the instrument through which intellectuals of various levels are elaborated. The complexity of the intellectual function in different states can be measured objectively by the number and gradation of specialised schools: the more extensive the “area” covered by education and the more numerous the “vertical” “levels” of schooling, the more complex is the cultural world, the civilisation, of a particular state. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 273 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Stable domination requires legitimating ideology plus fragmentation of the ruled. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 588; Class is defined by relation to production, incorporating both property and control — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 679; Parental socioeconomic background predicts a five-year schooling gap across the distribution — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 411 (+6 more)

Related

• Schools serve as the machinery that manufactures differentiated intellectual strata (similarity 0.92)
• A school’s social character comes from perpetuating a group’s class function (similarity 0.80)
• Hierarchical labor shapes inequality through consciousness, not just wages (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Schools serve as the machinery that manufactures differentiated intellectual strata #expands (0.90) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 273
• Differentiated schooling reproduces rather than abolishes class divisions #corroborates (0.88)
• Family and city life confer hidden educational advantages on privileged children. #corroborates (0.85)
• Structural hierarchy suppresses the development of commoner subjectivity. #corroborates (0.80) — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning, 90
• A school’s social character comes from perpetuating a group’s class function #qualifies (0.75)