Essays Tagged: "Symbolic capital"

Bourdieu's Belief that Education within the Capitalist Society Promotes Social Stratification

that of transmitting different forms of capital inter-generationally; these forms (the cultural and symbolic capital, because of greater importance to the analysis) will be briefly described.Bourdieu ... xtended the traditional idea of capital to categories such as social capital, cultural capital, and symbolic capital. He believed that it was these varying degrees of capital that determined class fra ...

(9 pages) 33 0 3.0 Nov/2009

Subjects: Social Science Essays