Education: hidden curriculum, meritocracy, cultural capital and habitus

What this note covers

1. Manifest and latent functions of schooling
2. The hidden curriculum: what school teaches without saying so
3. Meritocracy: the promise and the sociological critique
4. Bourdieu's cultural capital: three forms
5. Habitus: the dispositions we don't notice we have
6. Worked example: two students, one classroom
7. How education's hidden processes are examined and what separates a top response

7 sections · 11 key terms & formulas · 6 common mistakes