10.17192/meta.2014.2.1316 Zbib, Youssef Youssef Zbib Public Education: A Route into Lebanon’s Middle Class in the 1960s and Early 1970s Middle East - Topics + Arguments : Vol 2 (2014) Philipps-Universität Marburg 2014 Bureaucracy Middle Class Education Lebanon Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS) 2018-01-31 2014-05-16 en JournalArticle https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2014/37/1316 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2014-37-13166 https://doi.org/10.17192/meta.2014.2.37 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2014/37/1316/1316.png 2196-629X application/pdf application/msword In Lebanon during the 1960s, public education became more accessible to members of the lower classes and different sectarian denominations, after a time when education had been, to a large extent, a privilege of upper- and middle-class Christians. This paper examines the socioeconomic conditions of public school teachers as a result of this process. Using Bourdieusian analysis, I argue that these teachers used cultural capital acquired through free education to become part of a rising professional middle class. To a large extent, these teachers' definition of their own social positions and roles was a result of their individual histories and internalized values. 2196-629X Middle East - Topics + Arguments Vol 2 (2014)