The Rise of Class Culture Theory in Educational Anthropology

This article chronicles how the ideas of neo‐Weberians, Marxists, feminists, and critical race thinkers have merged to create a new cultural production or class culture paradigm of schooling. Reviews of recent ethnographic work illustrates how the articulations among class, race, gender, and sexual identity practices in schools are studied without privileging one standpoint over another. This paradigm shift signals the demise of earlier cultural transmissions and modernization paradigms in the field. class culture theory, cultural production, articulations, cultural transmission