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In which year did Bourdieu and Passeron publish La Reproduction, their account of how schooling converts inherited culture into credentials?
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- It falls six years after Les Héritiers and six before Schooling in Capitalist America.
- Nineteen seventy.
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1970
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1970. The pairing with Les Héritiers (1964) matters: the earlier book documented the class composition of French students, and the later one supplied the mechanism, that schools test a cultural competence acquired at home and treat the result as natural ability.
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