Translating Bourdieu

Cultural capital and the English middle class in historical perspective

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5609701
AutoresSimon Gunn (0000-0002-8559-0673, Leeds Beckett University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2005
Volumen56
Número1
Páginas49-64
Fecha de publicación2005-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBritish Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1468-4446.2005.00046.x
PMID15777462
OpenAlexW1970872504
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas32
Referencias citadas18

This article examines the ways in which Pierre Bourdieu's work on culture and cultural capital can be applied to the study of the English middle class in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Drawing on a wide historical literature, the article argues for the significance of culture as a constitutive element of middle-class identities in England since 1800. It goes on to examine Bourdieu's ideas of 'objectivated', 'instutionalized' and 'incorporated' cultural capital, in the context of family, inheritance, education and the body. The article identifies changes in the historical forms which cultural capital has taken and emphasizes the importance of analysing family processes of intergenerational transmission

Art · Capital (architecture · Class (philosophy · Context (archaeology · Cultural capital · Cultural inheritance · Epistemology · Inheritance (genetic algorithm · Linguistics · Middle class · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Gender Studies · History · Law · Music History and Culture · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics