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The biological process by which living things produce new individuals of their own kind, either sexually, by combining genetic material from two parents, or asexually, from a single parent. Buffon's Histoire naturelle (from 1749) helped fix the word reproduction as the general name for this process, in place of the older term generation; Weismann's The Germ-Plasm (1893) later grounded it in a separate germ line that carries heredity from one generation to the next, and modern reviews such as Otto and Lenormand (2002) still treat why sexual reproduction persists as an open question. Here the referent is living things making offspring, counted by births and offspring number, and it has nothing to do with copying an artwork or with a society passing on its class structure.[1][2][3]
The copying of an artwork by technical means such as photography, film, printing, or sound recording, and the effect of that copying on the work's authority. Benjamin's essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1935) argued that a reproduced work loses its aura, the unique presence tied to a single original in one place and time, and that this loss changes how art is perceived and put to use. Here the referent is the technical multiplication of images and recordings and its cultural consequences, not organisms making offspring and not a class structure carried across the generations.[4]
The processes through which a society passes its class and power structure from one generation to the next, especially through schooling and culture. Bourdieu and Passeron's La reproduction (1970) argued that education presents the culture of dominant groups as neutral merit while in fact rewarding the cultural capital that advantaged families already transmit, so the school reproduces existing inequality under the appearance of fair selection; Bourdieu's later account of the forms of capital (1986) set out how cultural, social, and economic advantages convert into one another. Here the referent is the inheritance of social position across generations, tracked in mobility and attainment data, and it is unrelated to organisms making offspring or to the technical copying of an artwork.[5][6]
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