ABSTRACT
A much more modest approach is adopted here, namely, presenting some challenging sociological, pedagogical and management positions in education. Bowles and Gintis (1976) argued that the education system transmits the ideology of equal educational opportunity and meritocracy. The different 'levels' of education correspond to, and prepare people for, the different 'levels' of the occupational structure. Blackledge and Hunt summarized Bernstein's (1977) position on education, social class and language. Deresiewicz (2009) holds that while the current emphasis on the use of social media in education is valuable, it needs to be accompanied by a reinstatement of an emphasis on solitude. Middle-class students who arrive in school with the elaborated code are better placed for educational success than working-class children. Members of one group in society adopt a 'positional approach' to their children in which family socialization is characterized by 'strong classification' of language.
