Poverty And Inequality Analysis

How is poverty and inequality reproduced through the education system?

When people think about the education system,they think of a system that provides equality for all regardless of their race, gender or social status. Education is considered to be the driving force that helps everyone realize their American dream.In almost all of the 50 States, it is mandatory for children ages 5 to 18 to attend some type of educational facility. But, just because they are in school doesn’t exactly mean that they are learning. Just because education is technically available to everyone, it still doesn’t mean that everyone is getting the same type of access to education. What people don’t take into consideration is how segregated schools are. Depending

In Foucault’s theory of power he argues how as a society we have gone from a system of sovereign power to system of disciplinary power. Foucault’s most famous point in his theory of power is the idea of a panoptic system, in which people are coaxed into behaving through the likeliness that they maybe being monitored. In the end subjects come to internally monitor themselves. Although sixth street isn’t based around a singular tower that monitors their every move but, more like a checkpoints where they are randomly monitored and searched. In all the surveillance of the sixth street resident has turned a place that should feel save into a place of fear. Because of this fear people remain undereducated, unemployed and eventually in an everlasting cycle of

Just by looking at families social class one can try and depict the type of social and cultural capital they have. In the article Lareau found that parents of the working class, regardless of their race tend to favor the natural growth system. Whereas middle class parents tend to lean towards the nurture aspect. In the study Lareau observed twelve children, both boys and girls from the different social classes, middle class, working class. and lastly the poor. In all of the social classes she also divided the twelve children into two racial categories, six white and six black with two children being in each social class. In terms of social capital in child-rearing practices it seemed the parents from the working and poor class tended to provide conditions for the children but, left them to decided their leisure activities on their own. Middle class children on the other hand tended to have set schedules provided by their parents as to how they spent their leisure time. When you look at the different social capital between the classes you can see that the children of the working or poor class have less organized activities compared to the children of the middle class. However, when the