GGRC50H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter week 2: Cultural Capital, Taylor & Francis, Pierre Bourdieu
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Capital is a vis insita, a force inscribed in objective or subjective structures; it is also lex insita, the principle underlying the immanent/instinct regularities of the social world. In the objectivity of things so that everything is not equally possible or impossible. The structure of the distribution of various types and subtypes of capital represent the immanent/instinct structure of social world, determining the chances of success for practices. We need to reintroduce all forms of capital rather than the economic theory that is the historical invention of capitalism. Self-interested focuses on mercantile/business exchange than universe exchange (disinterested of other forms of exchange) and maximization of profit. Interest cannot be produced without producing its negative counterpart, disconnectedness (in its narrow sense given in economic theory). Cultural capital can exist in 3 forms: embodied state , i. e. in the form of long-lasting dispositions of the mind and body, objectified state, in the form of cultural goods (pictures, books, dictionaries, instruments, machines etc.
