Pierre Bourdieu

Examples of Pierre Bourdieu in the following topics:

• Social Status

  • Twentieth century French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu continued to theorize social status .
  • According to Bourdieu's 1979 work Distinction, social capital is just as significant a factor in social status as economic capital.
  • By this, Bourdieu means that indicators of one's class are not limited to how much money one has in the bank, but also one's cultural tastes which one acquires beginning in his youth.
  • According to Bourdieu's 1979 work Distinction, social capital is just as significant a factor in social status as economic capital.

• Intelligence and Inequality

  • The term educational capital is a concept that expands upon the theoretical ideas of French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu who applied the notion of capital to social capital, cultural capital, and symbolic capital.
  • Pierre Bourdieu and Basil Bernstein explored how the cultural capital of the dominant classes has been viewed throughout history as the "most legitimate knowledge. " How schools choose the content and organization of curriculum and instructional practices connects scholastic knowledge to dynamics of class, gender, and race both outside and inside our institutions of education.
  • Therefore Bourdieu's perspective reveals how objective structures play an important role in determining individual achievement in school, but allows for the exercise of an individual's own free will and abilities to overcome these barriers, although this choice is not without its penalties.

• Academic Skills and Knowledge

  • Bourdieu's definition of academic capital is applicable to any individual: even an individual interviewing for a secretarial position would benefit from having more schooling than another candidate
  • The term originated in 1979 when Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002), a prominent French sociologist, used the term in his book, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste.
  • Since Bourdieu first coined the term, it has been used widely to discuss many of the implications involved with schooling and the rise of individuals in academia.
  • Bourdieu's definition of the term is applicable to any individual.

• High and Low Culture

  • Pierre Bourdieu, on the other hand, used a much broader, class-based, definition of high culture or "taste", which includes etiquette, appreciation of fine food and wine, and even military service, but also references different social codes supposedly observed in the dominant class, and that are not accessible to the lower classes.