Cultural capital and social inequality

Michael Savage, Tony Bennett

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    Abstract

    Editors' introduction. Over the past thirty years, the concept of cultural capital has emerged as an important means of stimulating interdisciplinary debate about the ways in which cultural processes are implicated in the reproduction, generation, and contestation of social division. This special issue brings together papers which explore how the concept can be applied across a range of social and cultural practices, encompassing contributions from sociology, history, cultural studies, media studies, and feminist scholarship, while also ranging over a broad range of cultural practices including the culture industries, the book trade, and museums. We are concerned not only to explore Bourdieu's influential concept of cultural capital itself, but to treat this as a key point of connection to other key concepts in Bourdieu's work (most notably the concepts of field and habitus). The papers presented here thus provide a strategic engagement with the theoretical architecture of Bourdieu's work as a whole as a means of furthering debates within core areas of sociology.
    Original languageEnglish
    Number of pages12
    JournalBritish Journal of Sociology
    Publication statusPublished - 2005

    Keywords

    • cultural capital
    • culture
    • inequality
    • equality
    • social exclusion
    • sociology
    • Great Britain
    • Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002

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