Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1994 18:30:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bryan A Case <godwin-AT-umich.edu>
Subject: Re: Bourdieu and capital


Yeah, I think you're closer to the mark than I was.  Although Bourdieu's 
idea of 'habitus' seems a little amorphous, as does 'cultural capital' - 
I felt as though I knew what he meant yet kept getting stuck defining his 
ideas fuzzily.



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	"What is reason?"	"A cloud eaten by the moon."       
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On Fri, 22 Jul 1994, Walter Kramer wrote:

> 
> 
> On Fri, 22 Jul 1994, Bryan A Case wrote:
> 
> > In DISTINCTION it seems that 'cultural capital' is an expression covering 
> > the activities of people determined by their class status, in other words 
> > by their position in capitalism.  Like Marx's capital, cultural capital 
> > can be hoarded, spent lavishly, etc. - but is most importantly not the 
> > same as cultural use value (if I may), which is part of Bourdieu's attack 
> > on Kant (who would, according to B., have us all be members of a 
> > classless cultural capitalism).  Your Marxist dialogist is quite right; 
> > it is not capital as such.  
> > 	I haven't read any other Bourdieu yet - can someone add more from 
> > other texts?
> 
> I ca't add anymore but I thought Cultural capitol reffered to a kind of 
> class specific knowledge, like the right kind of knowledge, habits, 
> norms, the kinds that open doors. 
> 


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