Pedagogic agencies must reproduce the cultural arbitrary that authorized them
Evidence
Insofar as it is the arbitrary imposition of a cultural arbitrary presupposing PAu, i.e. a delegation of authority (by 1 and 2), which requires the pedagogic agency to reproduce the principles of the cultural arbitrary which a group or class imposes as worthy of reproduc tion both by its very existence and by the fact of delegating to an agency the authority needed in order to reproduce it (by 2.
— Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron, Reproduction in Education, Society and…, 1431
Categorization
XREF: connects to: Institutions reproducing a delegating group’s culture need no self-justification — Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron, Reproduction in Education, Society and…, 1399; An agency granted pedagogic authority cannot freely set its own content or methods — Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron, Reproduction in Education, Society and…, 1344; Teachers must consciously impose their culture against pupils’ home culture — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 354 (+2 more)