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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