Reprodução social e cultural: as contribuições de Bourdieu para o campo educacional

Abstract

This article aims to reflect on the contributions of Bourdieu's theory to the educational field, emphasizing his theory of capital and reproduction that prevails in the school system. Thus, this work proposes the possibility of internalizing and appropriating Bourdieu's contributions to the educational field, emphasizing the discussions on cultural and social reproduction, linked to the economy of symbolic exchanges. Therefore, the article was able to highlight the contributions and point out some limits of Bourdieu's Sociology of Education. Thus, this article was structured in such a way that we could have a better understanding of Bourdieu's theory, where initially we present a biographical approach on the referred theorist, then we discuss the three fundamental concepts: field, habitus and capital to understand the social world, as well as a theoretical approach to social and cultural reproduction in Bourdieu and, finally, we raise some criticisms about the author's theory, under the eyes of some intellectuals of his time.