Cultural processes and forms of epistemic injustice should be taken into account in understanding how inequalities in education are produced and maintained¶

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Currency · newest study 2021 · checked against its sources 2026-10-20 (automated, 2 of 2 entries) · not reviewed by a person · recheck by 2026: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q1 i? A conceptual article argues that cultural processes (identification and rationalization) and epistemic injustice forms should be considered in understanding the production and maintenance of inequalities in education. → Göktürk 2021 q1 i? The article argues that education literature should include diverse epistemic approaches to problematize how structural inequalities in society are transmitted to education. → Göktürk 2021 (2)

Evidence¶

Göktürk 2021¶

Göktürk, D. (2021). Epistemic Injustice and Cultural Processes in Education. Kastamonu Education Journal, 29(1), 218-227. https://doi.org/10.24106/kefdergi.732138

q1 · i? · theoretical · r2

Conceptual article (theoretical argument, no new data). It builds a framework from Lamont, Beljean and Clair's cultural processes and Fricker's epistemic injustice, applied to one published ethnography, and concludes these "should be taken into consideration in understanding the production and maintenance of inequalities in education."

"The result indicates that cultural processes and epistemic injustice forms should be taken into consideration in understanding the production and maintenance of inequalities in education."

Göktürk 2021 (2)¶

Göktürk, D. (2021). Epistemic Injustice and Cultural Processes in Education. Kastamonu Education Journal, 29(1), 218-227. https://doi.org/10.24106/kefdergi.732138

q1 · i? · theoretical · r2

Theoretical argument stated in the introduction: the literature on education "should include diverse epistemic approaches" to problematize how structural inequalities in society are transmitted to education. No empirical test is reported.

"Taking into account cultural processes and epistemic injustice, this article argues that the literature on education should include diverse epistemic approaches to problematize the ways of the transmission of structural inequalities in society to education and how these inequality forms are complementary to current practices."

Studies bearing on this claim¶

Do a school's routine evaluation and categorisation practices (ratings, risk labels, stereotypes, feedback) fall unequally on learners and teachers by race? This table gathers the studies behind this claim and the 5 narrower claims that bear on it: 4 distinct studies (2 associational, 1 theoretical, 1 causal), q1–q2, 0 of 4 with an effect size coded. One row per study, codes as each entry records them; no effect is averaged and no verdict is drawn. Built by scripts/synthesize_claim.py from eval/synthesis/; a row that looks wrong is fixed on the claim it comes from.

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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• In the ethnography the article analyzes, black girls bussed to an affluent suburban school were unpopular and socially excluded for being seen as loud and ghetto, while black boys were classified as incapable of academic achievement — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• Eradicating hermeneutical injustice requires sufficient social equality in general, not only slight interpersonal hermeneutical empowerments — related
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