Which sociologist observed that education perpetuates the culture of the dominant class and called this phenomenon as ‘Cultural reproduction’?

Which sociologist observed that education perpetuates the culture of the dominant class and called this phenomenon as ‘Cultural reproduction’? Correct Answer Pierre Bourdieu

Pierre Bourdieu (1930 –2002): Pierre Bourdieu was a sociologist very much concerned with social hierarchy and economic capital. Expanding on his definition that social capital is the total of all the resources available to members of a group, he went on to discuss the idea that the “volume of social capital possessed by a given agent” (Bourdieu P., 1886) is dependent on the number of connections a person (agent) makes, along with the volume of capital cultural, economic, and social possessed by each connection. He is reported to have thought of social capital as an advantage because social capital helped maintain their social class and accompanying privileges (Field, 2003).

• It follows that Bourdieu’s concept or a framework of social capital focuses on the individual and how the individual can profit via their affiliation with a network or group. 
• Pierre Bourdieu (1977) in his book “Reproduction in Education, Society, and Culture” has discussed ‘Cultural Capital’ which is inherited by students from her family background. 
• Education perpetuates the culture of the dominant class and called this phenomenon ‘Cultural reproduction'. 
• For Bourdieu, Cultural Capital is acquired in the systematic cultivation of a sensibility in which principles of selection implicit within an environment translate, through inculcation, into principles of consciousness.
• Educational success, according to Bourdieu, entails a whole range of cultural behaviour, extending to apparently non-academic features like gait, dress, or accent.
• Bourdieu categorized Language as ‘Symbolic Capital’ which plays an imperative role in classroom performances by the students in the mainstream education system.

Hence, we conclude that Pierre Bourdieu observed that education perpetuates the culture of the dominant class and called this phenomenon as ‘Cultural reproduction’.