“Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital” by James Coleman
- Two intellectual streams:
- Actor is socialized and action is governed by social norms, rules, and obligations.
- Actor sets goals and acts independently out of self interest.
–But both are flawed. Obviously! Is anything either this or that, here or there, black or white? And I don’t think there’s a clear cut, blanket answer for EVERYONE. Not everything can be neat or orderly (and this is coming from a compulsive control freak…)
- Happy medium: social capital – a pastiche of the two intellectual traditions
- S.C. comes about through changes in the relations among persons that facilitate action; very intangible, existing only in the relations among persons.
I hate when authors tell me what they are going to do and how they are going to do instead of just telling me…This article would be a good example of how to teach this to students 
- Information channels–info as social capital
Excerpt from The Way Schools Work by de Morrais and le Compte
- Cultural Reproduction “examines how class-based differences are expressed in the political nature of curriculum content as well as in cultural and linguistic practices embedded in the formal curriculum.”
