cultural capital (n.) is either embodied (I.E dispositionally) in the form of cultural goods (pictures, books, machines) or in the institutionalized state…

Pierre Bourdieu on Cultural Capital

cultural capital

is tied to the mastering of a legitimate high culture.

Bourdieu ties cultural capital to the mastering of a legitimate high culture.(Danielsen 1998).

is forms of knowledge... skills, education.

is non-financial social assets that promote social mobility beyond economic means.

is the unspoken currency of taste, accent, and knowing which fork

is prestige or value attached to cultural artifacts, occupations, identities and activities. The maximization of cultural capital is the imperative which governs the production of social structure.

prestige or value attached to cultural artefacts, occupations, identities and activities. . . the imperative which governs the production of social structure is the maximization of cultural capital'

is either embodied (I.E dispositionally) in the form of cultural goods (pictures, books, machines) or in the institutionalized state (i.e. Education, etc).

Cultural capital can exist in three forms: in the embodied state, i.e., long-lasting dispositions of mind and body... in the objectified state, in the form of cultural goods (pictures, books, . . . instruments, machines . . ), . . . ... and in the institutionalized state, . . . as will be seen in the case of educational qualifications' (1986: 243)

is either generalized (group specific), particularized (specific to relationships between individuals), or reputational (what is known about the individual).

Collins conceptualizes three types of cultural capital: generalized (group specific), particularized (specific to relationships between individuals), and reputational (what is known about the individual). (net)

is either objective (material goods that vary with class), institutionalized (official recognition of knowledge and skills), or embodied (the result of class-based socialization (habitus).

For Bourdieu, there are three kinds of cultural capital: objective (material goods that vary with class), institutionalized (official recognition of knowledge and skills), and embodied (the result of class-based socialization (habitus). Generally, the concept refers to the social skills, linguistic styles, and tastes that one accrues through education and distance from necessity (a measure of how far removed someone is from basic sustenance living). As the levels of education and distance from necessity (net) . . .He extended the idea of capital to categories such as social capital, cultural capital, and symbolic capital. For Bourdieu each individual occupies a position in a multidimensional social space... he or she is not defined only by social class membership, but by every single kind of capital he or she can articulate through social relations. That capital includes the value of social networks, which Bourdieu showed could be used to produce or reproduce inequality. (wikipedia) . . .

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