| Titre | Education et valeurs de classe dans la sociologie américaine | |
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| Auteur | Jean-Claude Combessie | |
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Revue | Revue Française de Sociologie |
| Numéro | 1969, 10-1 | |
| Page | 12-36 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Jean-Claude Combessie : Education and class values in American sociology.
The purpose of this study is to underline the different levels at which empirical American studies use the notion of values to explain unequal school achievement of children belonging to different social classes. According to the level of aspiration expressed by the parents or the children, these studies establish the difference in ambition, disregarding objective, socially conditioned opportunities. A negative description of the values of lower social classes is given ; which in turn, invites the conclusion, that this process is voluntary. They justify unequal achievement by unequal ambition. Study of education in the family environment shows the valorization of the school as a non-autonomous element and logically dependent on a whole system of values. These values vary qualitatively according to social class. Studying the system of values in itself without relation to the objective characteristics of class, status and range of experience is not justified. When all these factors are considered the « voluntary » explanation is excluded. The article aims at ordering these empirical American studies in function of the coherence and realism of the type of explanation proposed. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rfsoc_0035-2969_1969_num_10_1_1478 |
