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Having It BOTH Ways: The Reproduction and Transformation of Schooling
Author(s) -
Moore David Thornton
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.1980.11.3.05x1866t
Subject(s) - sociology , ethnography , structuring , reproduction , face (sociological concept) , social reproduction , order (exchange) , epistemology , sociology of education , gender studies , social science , social psychology , anthropology , psychology , law , political science , social capital , ecology , philosophy , biology , finance , economics
At least rhetorically, alternative schools claim to manifest significant changes in the nature of educational experiences. This study utilizes the interactionist or constitutive ethnographic approach to analyze the extent to which the social relations underlying educational encounters were transformed in one innovative program. The author argues that, at the level of the structuring procedures by which participants organized their face‐to‐face interactions in various contexts, they both reproduced and transformed the conventional social order of schooling.