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“There could not possibly be a better time to rediscover the classic work that taught a generation to interrogate and challenge the economic forces and corporate predations that betray the democratic possibilities of public education. This powerful book is more relevant today than when it first aroused the outrage and the passion of the nation thirty years ago. I hope that it will reinforce the battle to resist coarseness and vulgarity of those efficiency technicians and business-minded technocrats in Washington who are riding high now in their efforts to establish uniformity, subservience, utility, and intellectual conformity as the guiding principals of public education. The sweep and brilliance of this work is the perfect antidote to toxic and misguided policies that are anti-child, anti-intellect, anti-egalitarian, and which need to be denounced, defied, and fearlessly rejected. As such, it deserves a wider readership than ever.”—Jonathan Kozol, author, Savage Inequalities and Shame of the Nation“Nearly 40 years after its original publication, Schooling in Capitalist America remains one of the most trenchant and relevant explorations of the class character of the American educational system.”—Erik Olin Wright, president, American Sociological Association“The reissue of Schooling in Capitalist America is a welcome event. Its message that schools foster personality traits that are highly valued in society has been affirmed in much subsequent research. The book properly directs attention away from an exclusive focus on cognition as the principal determinant of inequality and its perpetuation over generations. Noncognitive traits matter greatly, and theyare shaped by schools and families. These messages are timely reminders that contemporary cognitive-test-oriented educational policy and policy evaluation focus only on a narrow set of the important skills that schools create.”—James Heckman, University of Chicago; winner, 2000 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics“There could not possibly be a better time to rediscover the classic work that taught a generation to interrogate and challenge the economic forces and corporate predations that betray the democratic possibilities of public education. This powerful book is more relevant today than when it first aroused the outrage and the passion of the nation thirty years ago. I hope that it will reinforce the battle to resist coarseness and vulgarity of those efficiency technicians and business-minded technocrats in Washington who are riding high now in their efforts to establish uniformity, subservience, utility, and intellectual conformity as the guiding principals of public education. The sweep and brilliance of this work is the perfect antidote to toxic and misguided policies that are anti-child, anti-intellect, anti-egalitarian, and which need to be denounced, defied, and fearlessly rejected. As such, it deserves a wider readership than ever.”―Jonathan Kozol, author, Savage Inequalities and Shame of the Nation“Nearly 40 years after its original publication, Schooling in Capitalist America remains one of the most trenchant and relevant explorations of the class character of the American educational system.”―Erik Olin Wright, president, American Sociological Association“The reissue of Schooling in Capitalist America is a welcome event. Its message that schools foster personality traits that are highly valued in society has been affirmed in much subsequent research. The book properly directs attention away from an exclusive focus on cognition as the principal determinant of inequality and its perpetuation over generations. Noncognitive traits matter greatly, and theyare shaped by schools and families. These messages are timely reminders that contemporary cognitive-test-oriented educational policy and policy evaluation focus only on a narrow set of the important skills that schools create.”―James Heckman, University of Chicago; winner, 2000 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics

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About the Author

Samuel Bowles: Samuel Bowles is Research Professor and Director of the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute, and Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Massachusetts.Herbert Gintis: Herbert Gintis is an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute and a Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts.

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Product details

Paperback: 380 pages

Publisher: Haymarket Books; Reprint edition (October 18, 2011)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1608461319

ISBN-13: 978-1608461318

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6.2 x 1 x 9.2 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

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This book will forever change the way you think about education in our society. It does something which few other books on education do: it looks critically at how educational institutions are related to the broader social system we live under--capitalism. It looks at how schools, like other basic social institutions in capitalist society, create favourable conditions for the accumulation of profit.Think about it: the lower wages are, the higher the profits for employers. The more technically skilled workers are, the higher profits are. The more punctual, obedient and docile workers are---the higher the profits. Thus, an education system structured around the needs of capitalism tends to create a schooling experience that shuns creativity, critical thinking, and individual development. Moreover, it is often in school that we learn to respect authority, believe in the system we live under, and accept class inequalities as natural.In this painstakingly researched book, Bowles and Gintis detail how this process works. They argue that schools under capitalism tend to foster types of "personal development compatible with the relationships of dominance and subordinacy in the economic sphere... while creating surpluses of skilled labor sufficiently extensive to render effective the prime weapon of the employer in disciplining labor--the power to hire and fire."This is a serious book, written by professional economists. It is a tour de force. It is a must-read, in my opinion, for anyone who wants to think critically about how social systems and educational institutions are related.

A must read for anyone who questions regarding the state of American society. And for people who want a better understanding of our political system and its effects on socail institutions and class system. So thorough and well written it is easy to comprehend for academics and layman alike.

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This book is a reprint of the 1976 edition, with a new preface from Bowles and Gintis for the 2011 reprint edition.In 1988 a collection of articles were published titled _Bowles and Gintis Revisted_, mainly these were sympathetic critics of Bowles and Gintis and their reactions to the criticisms. This is important complementary text to be read after reading _Schooling in Capitalist America_.What is amazing about the 1976 reprint is how relevant and urgent it remains today. It is a very timely and important reprint of the classical reference for sociology of education literature. Its primary argument is that the single best predictor of a child's economic future is not educational achievement, IQ, or even performance in school, but simply the economic status of the child's parents.The primary arguments Bowles and Gintis made in 1976 have held up remarkably well, even though the statistical data they employed was far less sophisticated then it is today. This is social theory at its very best!The primary arguments are:(1) Inequality and types of personal development are largely determined by markets, property, and power relations, and less to do with what happens in schooling.(2) Education does not add to or subtract from the overall degree of inequality and repressive personal development. Rather, schooling "facilities" "a smooth integration of youth into the labor force." (a) Schools legitimate inequality. (b) Schools foster personal development compatible with dominance and subordination typical in the American work place. (c) Schools create surpluses of skilled labor; schools do not overcome unemployment at an aggregate (or national) level.(3) There is a very strong "Correspondence" between social relations in the work place and social relations of the educational system.(4) American schooling system primarily serves stability of the profit system and politics. It does not, however, accomplish this hitchless.(5) Education reform will always be incomplete unless there is a corresponding transformation in the work place, labor markets _and_ class structure of society.Primary argument (3), or the Correspondence Theory of Bowles and Gintis has received the widest acclaim, and is probably even stronger today than it was in 1976. This is the basis of all sociology of education. Explaining how this correspondence between work place relationships and educational system relations is not a simple matter. Bowles and Gintis demonstrate the correspondence rather than offering a full explanation of how the correspondence functions empirically. Indeed they have been accused of illicit functionalism. This seems to me a misreading, and conflating a demonstration of the correspondence for a full explanation which was not their intention.Accusations of an illicit functionalism also emerge with primary argument (4). But once again this seems a misreading. Bowels and Gintis do indeed argue the school system tends to stabilize the profit system, however, it does not do so in any straight forward way. Thus, critical thinking, understanding, personal and social enlightenment can certainly produce young minds resistant to profit relations. Why the schooling process predominantly produces young minds that accept and identify with the profit relations is an additional role of sociology of education (and sociology of consciousness and psychology of motivation more generally).Although Bowles and Gintis would later accept they needed to further develop the concept of "contradiction", in my estimation the contradictions they do analyze remain two of most provocative aspects of the book. Their argument was that the accumulation process of pursuing profits was often out of phase with and often in contradiction to the process of reproduction of the social relations. In other words, in order to grow the economy to produce more profits, competition and technological change increase the need for ever more highly trained, intelligent, and self-motivated individuals. The latter do not necessarily develop in phase with the profit system, instead highly educated, intelligent and self-motivated individuals often become critical of the profit system and the political apparatus that supports it.The second contradiction according to Bowles and Gintis is between political "democracy" and antidemocratic relations in the workplace. Democracy, or something appearing much like democracy, has been extended to white men, all men, women in the political realm, but dictatorship relationships (for white men, women and minorities) still dominant the workplace; there is no democratic control over production decisions and issues of distributionIt is especially these latter two points, in the above two paragraphs, that makes the book urgently relevant today. The 2007-8 crisis has produced a critical consciousness, books like _Schooling in Capitalist America_ offer a particular depth to the social problems of contemporary America.Also making the book timely and relevant is the call for "educating the nation out of crisis" (Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, for example uses such language). This is to confuse the cause and effect relationship between poverty and education. The real world is far more complicated.The most important lesson that educational reformers can take away from this book, whether they be progressive, radical, or conservative, is that educational reform alone cannot transform schooling and the educational process. Real reform requires corresponding reforms in the work place, labor markets, and social class structure. This point goes a long way in helping to explain why so much reform has accomplished so little change in the American schooling system.

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