Pierre Bourdieu's concept of 'cultural capital' explains educational inequality by arguing that schools:
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Correct answer: reward the knowledge of dominant social groups
Bourdieu argued that schools value the cultural capital of dominant classes, so children from those backgrounds are advantaged, reproducing social inequality.
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