Cultural Capital And Cultural Reproduction By Pierre Bourdieu

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Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) was a French sociologist who mainly focused his works on the dynamics of power in society. He was born into a family that had a working class background and lived in a small town in France. The French sociologists ideologies originaly started to come together when he decided to put attention towards these two themes ‘cultural capital’ and ‘cultural reproduction’. “Cultural reproduction refers to the ways in which schools, in conjunction with other social institutions, help perpetuate social and economic inequalities across the generations” (Giddens and Griffiths, 2006, p.710) – this quote is basically stating that it’s a process that takes place which involves passing down cultural principles and values from one

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