Cultural and Social Capital
Pierre Bourdieu (1 August 1930 – 23
January 2002) was a French sociologist, anthropologist, philosopher and public intellectual. According to Bourdieu capital is the
currency that buys you a higher position in society. The more time you spend
accumulating a form of capital, the more valuable that capital is. There are
two types of Capital:
CULTURAL CAPITAL: what you have
and what you know. Embodied
Capital refers to Your skills, accent, dialect, postures and manerisms. Pronunciation
for example gives you social prestige. Objetified Capital are your material
belonging that have social significance. A luxirius car is a good example.
Institutionalized Capital are symbols of competence and authority For ex, credentials
and qualifications. A shared cultural capital provides a collective identity of
shared beliefs, values, way of dress and behaviours.
SOCIAL CAPITAL: is who you know.
Your amount of social capital depends on your Network. Your social
relationships give you social capital. This occurs through relationships you
make in your life and relationships you inherit.
Groups share a capital as part of
a collective capital. By joining a group you gain access to their collective
capital, increasing your power. When you have social capital, people want to
know you more, since having you in their network your social capital will
increase. This in turn makes
it easier for you to grow and maintain your social network and social capital.
On the other hand, if you have little social capital it could be difficult to
start, build and maintain relantionships.
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