Cultural Hegemony
Cultural Hegemony refers to the crucial aspect for creating as well as reproducing social inequalities. It comprises of such taken-for-granted constituents of instructions as alterations in modes of social control as well as the parameter of associations of the authority and the valorization of given forms of dialectal and ethnic manifestation. Therefore, the hidden curriculum replicates the "Cultural Hegemony" of the leading class and works to support and replicate that supremacy by aggravating as well as increasing in place of lessening or rather eliminating the inequities kids carry from home and neighborhood to the school (Ferguson 50). Moreover, other scholars such as Pierre argue that schools exemplify the class welfares and system of the leading class which possesses the influence to levy its assessments, cultural procedures (Capital) as well as standards as the superior. As such, the presiding class is in a position to steadily administer the communal discrepancies of its own way of life and tastes as loftier values to be generally aspired to.
Symbolic Violence
Symbolic violence refers to the excruciating, injuring, finite sores that are wreaked by the exerting of standards, symbols as well as words. Normally, cultural hegemony is implemented through the application of "symbolic violence." However, the notion of symbolic violence is predominantly beneficial for the evaluation of reprimand practices as emblematic enforcers of an ethnic hegemony in the concealed curriculum.
Foucault's Approach
Foucault's approach avows that standardizing judgments made through the apportionment of punishment and reward are the most influential tools of this punitive authority, whose role is not to overpower the undesirable behavior or even to change it but rather to mention the discrete activities to a whole that is at once a ground of evaluation or even a planetary of discrepancy. Furthermore, it smidgens the limit that will describe the modification in relation to all the other changes as well as the external boundary of the anomalous (Ferguson 53). This approach differs from the normal approach in that here; kids are sorted, ranked, evaluated as well as compared on the basis of misbehavior. On the other hand, kids are evaluated based on standardized scores and tests with reference to the official academic curriculum.
Hidden Curriculum and the Official Curriculum
The hidden curriculum comprises of the unofficial, unwritten as well as the unintended lessons, values and perspectives learned in school including the unspoken, implicit academic, cultural as well as social messages communicated to the students. Furthermore, the kids are sorted, ranked, evaluated as well as compared on the basis of misbehavior. On the other hand, the official curriculum comprises of lessons, courses as well as learning activities that students get involved in, in addition to the knowledge and skills the educators intentionally teach the students (Ferguson 55). Furthermore, the kids are evaluated based on standardized scores and tests with reference to the official academic curriculum.
Functionalist and Conflict Theorist View of Education as an Institution
In my perspective, functionalists tend to view education as a vital social organization that underwrites to both dormant as well as manifest functions. In particular, functionalists view education as a basic requirement of the society by concocting the students for later roles and functions in the community. On the other hand, conflict theorist does not believe in the fact that public schools lessen the social disparity, instead, they assert that the educational system strengthens as well as preserves the social inequalities that result from the differences in ethnicity, race as well as gender. Furthermore, they believe and view that the education systems tend to preserve the status quo as well as push the persons from a lower social status into obedience.
Works Cited
Ferguson, Ann Arnett. Bad boys: Public schools in the making of black masculinity. University of Michigan Press, 2014.
