Social Class, Language, and Socializatio

Social Class, Language, and Socialization Basil Bernstein

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“Historically and now, only a tiny percentage of the population has been socialized into knowledge at the level of the meta-languages of control and innovation, whereas the mass of the population has been socialized into knowledge at the level of context-tied operations. “ (477)

(image/png)Try to understand this. Isn’t abstraction where the power is?

So this is what Labaree means when he says comfort with uncertainty is the key to success in grad school. 

Higher class representation is more concerned with the structure of the contextual [interpretive] frame.  (image/png)