Bourdieu Cultural Capital

With the development of the society, people have more attention of education. Bourdieu(1986) think capital has three forms, economic capital, cultural capital and social capital.This paper mainly focus on cultural capital and social capital. In the cultural capital, it has three forms: the embodied state, the objectified state and the institutionalized state. What is more, social capital also has some characteristics, such as its institutionalized form and reproduction through the exchange. Each of these will be examined in turn.

Cultural Capital

Cultural capital, in short, it covers ‘general cultural awareness, knowledge,skills’ and verbal facility that can be transformed to another( David,2002). Bourdieu(1986) insists that “cultural capital

It exists in a person’s mind and it means a kind of cultural accomplishment.It comes from education, family environment and cultural. What is more ,it has a long unconscious process which takes a person much time and even economical capital.Therefore, it cannot be possessed immediately. In this process, other people cannot replace this person because it does not like goods which can be sold or as a gift and cultural capital is an internal state. For example, a person has a famous painting , but he/ she cannot understand the cultural connotation in the picture. In other word, actually, the person does not get any cultural capital from the

This network which depends on cultural capital and economic capital is recognized by group members who know each other. In the group, every member can have profit through the use of the collective resources.

Social capital has four characters. Firstly, the volume of the social capital relies on the size of the network and other members’ the volume of the capital ,including cultural capital and economic capital. Then social capital is a outcome of investment. Therefore, it is not a natural given or social given. In this process, people invest a relationship which is useful by endless exchange in order to gain benefits from network. Thirdly, social capital has endless reproduction through exchange . In this process, it need a continuous investment by the cost of cultural capital and economic capital. In addition, recognition of group members increases by exchange. Finally, groups have institutionalized forms. It has benefit of concentration of social capital and limiting the result of individual lapses. In fact, in the group, it usually has a representative from members ,such as the head of the group and the eldest of the family. These representatives have the power to represent the whole group and have the responsibility for preserving collective