Tag: cultural class analysis

• Cultural capital approaching 60

  Cultural capital will soon turn 60 (I’m folllowing Johan Heilbron, who in the Dictionnaire International Bourdieu dates the concept to the publication of Les héritiers in 1964). A lot has happened to that concept throught its long life. In a new paper, Mike Savage, Annick Prieur and I discuss some recent studies and reflect on…

  magneflemmen

  February 20, 2023

  Uncategorized

  Bourdieu, class, cultural class analysis

• On what class is and how it works

  A few years ago, the Norwegian Journal of Social Research asked a bunch of researchers about their reflections on the past and/or future of their discipline. What follows is a (rough) translation of my response. In recent years, questions about social inequality and class differences have returned to the agenda in the social sciences and…

  magneflemmen

  August 10, 2022

  class, socialisation, theory

  Bourdieu, class, cultural class analysis, goldthorpe, marx, social class, vandebroeck, weber