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ables them to function in school – These students have a particular knowledge that allows them to navigate through the school system by displaying desired behavior and/or conforming to unspoken norms ? Covert function of cultural capital within the school system: students that possess the appropriate cultural capital will be recognized as “advanced” leaving those that do not possess the same cultural capital left to reproduce their habitus. – Impacts the possibilities of being funneled into college prep vs. vocational courses ? Masked through the ideology of meritocracy: individuals who do not have the desired cultural capital are labeled as lacking in intelligence and the drive to succeed Bourdieu and Cultural Discontinuity ? Bourdieu pinpoints the conflict between cultures as they play out in power dynamics of the classroom ? Though his work focuses on class, it can also be used as a springboard to talk about ethnicity ? The problem according to cultural discontinuity is not about cultures being deficient but rather different. – The role of power in these situations translates difference into forms of oppression and social inequalities