CCT200H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pierre Bourdieu, Economic Capital, Cultural Capital

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT200H5
• Professor: Jasmine Rault

Document Summary

Capital can present itself in three fundamental guises : economic capital immediately/directly convertible into money and may be institutionalized as property rights. 3 forms of cultural capital: embodied long-lasting dispositions of mind and body, objectified cultural goods (i. e. books, pictures) Ability or talent is itself the product of an investment of time and cultural capital . Embodied state: cultural capital linked to the body and presupposed embodiment . External wealth converted into integral part of person, into habit, cannot be transmitted instantaneously by gift or purchase . Combines prestige of innate property with merits of acquisition : naturalizes class differences obfuscating effect of capital/ideology. Predisposed to function as symbolic capital, i. e. to be unrecognized as legitimate competence . Your tone of voice makes you seem trustworthy . Specifically, symbolic logic of distinction additionally secures material and symbolic profits for possessors of large cultural capital in turn secures class-divided capital.