Social and cultural reproduction in theoretical perspective

Social and Cultural Reproduction in Theoretical Perspective. This article is the review of the theories dealing with the social and the cultural reproduction of society. Firstly the author defines the concept of social reproduction as well as the concept of cultural reproduction and delimits the differences between them. Afterwards he divides the writers, which deal with the social reproduction (Louis Althusser, Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis and Melvin Kohn), and the writers, which deal with the cultural reproduction (Basil Bernstein, Shirley Brice Heath, Paul Willis and Jay MacLeod). Between these two groups of authors is situated Pierre Bourdieu's argument, which take into consideration both of these types of reproduction. Finally the main body of the article describes the arguments of these writers and compare their weak and strong points.