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Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 10:32:39 -0600 (CST)
From: Eleanor Townsley <townsley-AT-ruf.rice.edu>
Subject: Re: Bourdieu and class in the US framework




> Stripped of its tendency toward conspiracy theory, C. Wright Mills's *The
> Power Elite* stands as a good account of the importance and unimportance of
> education in the American economy of prestige. 
> 
> Raf Alvarado
> Instructional Technology Advisor
> 204 Wilson Hall, University of Virginia
> (804) 243-6597, rca2t-AT-Virginia.EDU		 
> 
> 
To add to this and connect it to the sociology of intellectuals:
I'd also recommend C. Wright Mills "Brains Inc." from White Collar, the 
work on education from Christopher Jencks in the early 1970s, and 
although it takes the idea of cultural capital or "the culture of 
critical discourse" to the critical limits (and is quite a discredited 
work in some academic quarters in the US) Alvin Gouldner's, The Future of 
Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class has some very interesting 
connections with Bourdieu's notion cultural capital. I would also suggest 
for anyone thinking through how cultural capital works and who wants to 
get away from the overly metaphorical use in early formulations that they 
look at Bill Martin and Ivan Szelenyi's 198 article "Beyond Cultural 
Capital: Toward a Theory of Symbolic Domination". Pp. 16-49 in 
Intellectuals, Universities and the State in Modern Western Societies, 
edited by Ron Eyerman, Lennert G. Svensson, and Thomas Soderqvist. Los 
Angeles, Berkeley and London: University of California Press.


   

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