Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these works on culture, socialisation and education, earliest first.
- Sumner publishes Folkways
- Tylor gives his definition of culture
- Bowles and Gintis publish Schooling in Capitalist America
- Mead’s Mind, Self and Society appears
- Berger and Luckmann publish The Social Construction of Reality
- Willis publishes Learning to Labour
Hints
- The two nineteenth and early twentieth century entries come first.
- 1871, 1906, 1934, 1966, 1976 and 1977.
Show the answer
- Tylor gives his definition of culture
- Sumner publishes Folkways
- Mead’s Mind, Self and Society appears
- Berger and Luckmann publish The Social Construction of Reality
- Bowles and Gintis publish Schooling in Capitalist America
- Willis publishes Learning to Labour
Why
The century between Tylor and Willis is a steady narrowing of the question. Tylor asks what culture is, Mead how a person acquires one, Berger and Luckmann how it is sustained as reality, and the last two how a specific institution distributes it unequally, each step trading generality for the ability to be shown wrong by evidence.
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