ABSTRACT
The specific role of the sociology of education is assumed once it has established itself as the science of the relations between cultural reproduction and social reproduction. This occurs when it endeavours to determine the contribution made by the educational system to the reproduction of the structure of power relationships and symbolic relationships between classes. By contributing to the reproduction of the structure of the distribution of cultural capital among these classes. In fact the statistics of theatre, concert, and museum attendance are sufficient reminder that the inheritance of cultural wealth which has been accumulated and bequeathed by previous generations only really belongs to those endowed with the means of appropriating it for themselves. If, of all cultural activities, cinema attendance in its common form is the one that is least closely linked to level of education, as opposed to concert-going.
