Sunday, March 22, 2009

Chapter 4 exercise 1

She first states what the issue is, then gives two opinions on the problem.  She talks about how Bowles and Gintis said that there are rewards for different behaviors that come from the different social classes.  On the other hand, Bernstein, Bourdieu, and Apple talk about how certain knowledge and skills are favored to the upper classes more then the working classes.  When you read this section of the writing you could possibly assume that she is agreeing with the main problem stated in the first sentence of the reading, but then she goes into talking about how there hasn't been any huge attempts to research the issue.  You could easily conclude that she disagrees on the situation because she doesn't feel like she has enough background information on the problem to believe anything anyone says. Overall I would say that Jean Anyon has an agree/disagree standpoint on the situation.

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