Cultural Capital文化资本.pptVIP

Cultural Capital Capital is a basis for domination and that types of capital can be exchanged for other types of capital. Social life consists of a struggle for position or domination: individuals seek to circumnavigate the constraints social structure sets against them. The objective is to accrue capital, which refers to the attributes, possessions, or qualities of a person that is exchangeable for goods, services, or esteem. Capital takes time to accumulate and has the potential to produce profits and to reproduce itself in identical or expanded form. Capital exists in many forms. Bourdieu (“Forms of Capital”, in Hand Book of Theory and Research for the sociology of education,ed.Richardson J.G, 1986..) identifies three types of capital: economic capital (material things); symbolic capital (prestige, status, and legitimate authority); and cultural capital (culturally valued taste and consumption patterns including art, education, skills, sensibilities, and creativity). Capital acts as a social relation within a system of exchange and refers to all goods, material and symbolic, that seems to be rare and valuable. The structure of the distribution of different types of capital at a given point in time represents the structure of the social world- i.e., the set of constraints that govern its functioning. Cultural capital is a special form of resources, a proficiency in the consumption of and the discourse about prestigious cultural goods. Cultural capital exists in three forms. In its embodied state, it is a cultural competence that derives a scarcity value from its position in the distribution of cultural capital and yields profits of distinction. In its objectified state, cultural capital is the product of historical action in the form of cultural goods-material objects and media such as writings, paintings, monuments, and instruments. As the cultural capital incorporated into the means of production increases, the collective strength of the holders