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Sociology

Symbolic Capital and Symbolic Violence: Imposing The Spectre of Legitimacy of The Social Order

“Bourdieu extended the notion of capital, defined as sums of money or assets put to productive use. For Bourdieu, these assets could take many forms which had not received much attention when he began writing. Bourdieu habitually refers to several principal forms of capital: economic, symbolic, cultural and social. Loic Waquant describes their status in…

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