Author Question: According to economic advisor Walt Rostow, all countries go through four stages of economic ... (Read 66 times)

Mr.Thesaxman · **on:** Jul 2, 2018

According to economic advisor Walt Rostow, all countries go through four stages of economic development. What is the correct sequence of economic development stages?

a. take-off, traditional, high mass consumption, and technological maturity
b. traditional, technological maturity, take-off, and high mass consumption
c. high mass consumption, technological maturity, take-off, and traditional
d. traditional, take-off, technological maturity, and high mass consumption

Question 2

Discuss the conflict perspective on education and explain cultural capital and class reproduction.

What will be an ideal response?

bookworm410 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 2, 2018

Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

Conflict theorists argue that access to quality education is closely related to social class. From this approach, education is a vehicle for reproducing existing class relationships. According to French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, the school legitimates and reinforces the social elites by engaging in specific practices that uphold the patterns of behavior and the attitudes of the dominant class. Students from diverse class backgrounds come to school with different amounts of cultural capitalsocial assets that include values, beliefs, attitudes, and competencies in language and culture. Cultural capital involves proper attitudes toward education, socially approved dress and manners, and knowledge about books, art, music, and other forms of high and popular culture. Middle- and upper-income parents endow their children with more cultural capital than do working-class and poverty-level parents. Because cultural capital is essential for acquiring an education, children with less cultural capital have fewer opportunities to succeed in school. For example, standardized tests that are used to group students by ability and to assign them to classes often measure students' cultural capital rather than their natural intelligence or aptitude. Thus, a circular effect occurs: Students with dominant cultural values are more highly rewarded by the educational system, and in turn, the educational system teaches and reinforces those values that sustain the elite's position in society.