Symbolic Capital
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7075952 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anwar Tlili (King's College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 1-3 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeos1009 |
| OpenAlex | W4240629378 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
Bourdieu's concept of symbolic capital aims to capture and explain the unequally distributed symbolic resources in society that usually go by the names of social esteem, credit, and honour. Unlike other forms of capital theorized by Bourdieu, symbolic capital forms within the intersection of relations and perceptions. To that extent, nothing in itself constitutes symbolic capital; rather, it is generated when a property, trait, or aspect of lifestyle is recognized – within interpersonal and intergroup relations – as a sign of social esteem and credit, individual and/or collective. While Bourdieu's symbolic capital echoes and incorporates several influences from classical anthropology (Mauss and Lévi‐Strauss) and sociology (in particular, Weber and Goffman), its analytic originality and usefulness reside in its relational and polyvalent edge, which can track and uncover the subtle workings of symbolic power that can come in multiple misrecognized and mystified forms attached to various manifestations of inequality, power, and privilege
Capital (architecture · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Privilege (computing · Psychoanalysis · Social capital · Social science · Sociology · Symbolic capital · Symbolic power · The Symbolic · History · Law · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |