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A founder of the Italian Communist Party, Antonio Gramsci coined the phrase "managers of legitimation" to describe how teachers and like professionals determine who is and who is not legitimate. What is meant by this phrase?


A) That students are taught (i.e. "managed" into) the prevailing social reality, their place in it, and the status quo.
B) Teachers should act as psychiatrists and determine who can adjust to social inequality and who cannot.
C) Intellectuals should be gatekeepers and determine who should succeed and who should fail-the failures being a threat to social harmony.
D) Students should be seen as products, the same as those made in a factory, and thereby serve capitalism.

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