Talk:Cultural capital
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POV: The first sentence about criticism essentially insults the critics. RedHouse18 8/8/06
- Removed it. JenLouise 06:39, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
Doing a bit of re-work of this article and have just removed these section for now as I am not sure where it should go. They can go back in later.JenLouise 04:23, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
The article has hitherto not been published in French, but its section on cultural capital is largely based on Les Trois états du capital culturel in Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales, 30 (1979), see below). Here, cultural capital was described as follows:
| La notion de capital culturel s'est imposée d'abord comme une hypothèse indispensable pour rendre compte de l'inégalité des performances scolaires des enfants issus des différentes classes sociales en rapportant la `réussite scolaire', c'est-à-dire les profits spécifiques que les enfants des différentes classes peuvent obtenir sur le marché scolaire à la distribution du capital culturel entre les classes et les fractions de classes. Ce point de départ implique une rupture avec les présupposés inhérents aussi bien à la vision ordinaire qui tient le succès ou l'échec scolaire pour un effet des `aptitudes' naturelles qu'aux théories du `capital humain'. | "The notion of cultural capital first stood out as a theory which was essential in accounting for the inequality of performance at school of children from different social classes yielding "success at school", that is the specific profits which children of different classes can make on the school market in the distribution of cultural capital between the classes and sections of the classes. This starting-point implies a break with presuppositions inherent both to the ordinary point of view which considers success or failure at school an effect of natural "aptitude", and to theories of "human capital"." |
In Cultural Reproduction and Social Reproduction, Bourdieu and Passeron introduced the idea of cultural reproduction (sometimes known as social reproduction), whereby existing disadvantages and inequalities are passed down from one generation to the next. This, according to Bourdieu, is partly due to the education system and other social institutions. Capitalist societies depend on a stratified social system, where the working class has an education suited for manual labour: levelling out such inequalities would break down the system. Thus, schools in capitalist societies will always be stratified too.
Have moved this second paragraph to a stub on cultural reproduction.JenLouise 04:49, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
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Please add the list of reference to this article. It's not sufficient to write the auther and year like this (King, 2005:223). --Communicator1 11:11, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
- Done! Sorry about that - I must have forgot to come back and add them in. JenLouise 00:39, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Good article
I propose to nominate this article as Good article. There are criteria of a good articleWikipedia:What is a good article?. Do you agree with me.--Communicator1 02:38, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] GA Failed
This article failed the GA noms due to lack of wikification and inline citations. Tarret 22:54, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Please clarify
but more in the sense of time, cultural, and traditions bestow elements of the embodied state to another usually by the family through socialisation.
This seems ungrammatical; the syntax is extremely confusing. This is my guess at its meaning: in the sense that temporal and cultural traditions, of embodied state, are transferred to others, usually by the family, through socialisation.
I only came across this subject, Cultural Capital, because a friend mentioned it. Rintrah 08:28, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
