SOC102H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-3: Cultural Capital, Symbolic Power, Class Conflict
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School examinations, particularly in higher education, reward the ability to parry questions with ease and style inculcated outside the school. Both the ideology of the gift (talent), whereby acquired capacities are transformed into intrinsic virtues, and the controlled mobility of a few working-class and lower-class children in each generation, legitimate the symbolic violence of schooling (the imposition of a. The reason, he said, is that the dominant culture is defined by the school as the institution that unifies the cultural market. Member of the less wealthy fractions of the dominant class are dependent on the school (on their cultural capital) - for their own success. In the course of these developments - bureaucratized, rationalized modes of recruitment and selection. These inheritors, in turn, reconvert their cultural and social capital intro economic dominance - transforming its basis from inheritance of wealth to possession of cultural and social capital, misrecognized as talent or accomplishment.
