Educational Capital

Examples of Educational Capital in the following topics:

• Intelligence and Inequality

  • Educational capital can produce or reproduce inequality and also serve as a leveling mechanism that fosters equal opportunity.
  • The term educational capital is a concept that expands upon the theoretical ideas of French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu who applied the notion of capital to social capital, cultural capital, and symbolic capital.
  • Educational capital refers to educational goods that are converted into commodities to be bought, sold, withheld, traded, consumed, and profited from in the educational system.
  • Educational capital can be utilized to produce or reproduce inequality, and it can also serve as a leveling mechanism that fosters social justice and equal opportunity.
  • Devise two separate scenarios, one in which educational capital serves as a leveling mechanism and one in which academic capital reproduces inequality

• Women in the Workplace

  • While occupational sexism and the glass ceiling will be explored in the section 'Inequalities of work," what follows is a discussion of barriers to equal participation in the work force, including access to education and training, access to capital, network discrimination and other factors.
  • Women's access to occupations requiring capital outlays is also hindered by their unequal access (statistically) to capital; this affects individuals who want to pursue careers as entrepreneurs, farm owners and investors.

• Women in the Labor Force

  • Women's access to occupations requiring capital outlays is also hindered by their unequal access to capital; this affects occupations such as entrepreneur and small business owner, farm ownership, and investor.

• Education and Industrialization

  • Education economics is the study of economic issues relating to education, including the demand for education and the financing and provision of education.
  • The dominant model of the demand for education is based on human capital theory.
  • Educational technology is the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using, and managing appropriate technological processes and resources.
  • Educational technology is intended to improve education over what it would be without technology.
  • Define education economics, human capital, human capital flight, and educational technology

• School

  • Education is the process by which society transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills, customs and values from one generation to another.
  • Education is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people is transmitted from one generation to the next.
  • Education is perceived as an endeavor that enables children to develop according to their unique needs and potential.
  • It was after World War II, however, that the subject received renewed interest around the world: from technological functionalism in the US, egalitarian reform of opportunity in Europe, and human-capital theory in economics.
  • Education also performs another crucial function.

• Income Distribution

  • Before 1937, a larger share of top earners' income came from capital (interest, dividends, income from rent, capital gains).
  • Education is an indicator of class position, meaning that unequal distribution of income by education points to inequality between the classes.

• Capitalism

  • Capitalism is generally considered by scholars to be an economic system that includes private ownership of the means of production, creation of goods or services for profit or income, the accumulation of capital, competitive markets, voluntary exchange, and wage labor.
  • Economists, political economists and historians have taken different perspectives on the analysis of capitalism.
  • Capitalism is generally viewed as encouraging economic growth.
  • The relationship between democracy and capitalism is a contentious area in theory and popular political movements.
  • Examine the different views on capitalism (economical, political and historical) and the impact of capitalism on democracy

• The Social Reproduction of Inequality

  • According to conflict theorists, this is a predictable result of capitalism and other forces of domination and inequality.

• The Marxist Critique of Capitalism

  • Capitalism has been the subject of criticism from many perspectives during its history.
  • Criticisms range from people who disagree with the principles of capitalism in its entirety, to those who disagree with particular outcomes of capitalism.
  • In this sense they seek to abolish capital.
  • Capitalism is seen as just one stage in the evolution of the economic system.
  • Examine Karl Marx's view on capitalism and the criticisms of the capitalist system

• Global Stratification and Inequality

  • A sociologist might use the following types of evidence to support modernization and development theory, dependency theory, and world systems theory respectively: Poor, rural areas of India have seen increased local wealth and income with the introduction of mobile ATMs, suggesting that access to modern capitalism and technology can reduce economic inequality.
  • Educational attainment is associated with increased wealth, health, and social status.
  • A sociologist might use the following types of evidence to support modernization and development theory, dependency theory, and world systems theory respectively: Poor, rural areas of India have seen increased local wealth and income with the introduction of mobile ATMs, suggesting that access to modern capitalism and technology can reduce economic inequality.
  • These core countries own most of the world's capital and technology, and have great control over world trade and economic agreements.