O capital cultural de pierre bourdieu biography

Concept of social status and social mobility

This article is about the sociological term. For cities and locations, see Capital of Culture.

In the field of sociology, cultural capital comprises the social assets of a person (education, intellect, style of speech, style of dress, social capital, etc.) that promote social mobility in a stratified society.^[1] Cultural capital functions as a social relation within an economy of practices (i.e.

system of exchange), and includes the accumulated cultural knowledge that confers social status and power;^[2][3] thus cultural capital comprises the material and symbolic goods, without distinction, that society considers rare and worth seeking.^[4] There are three types of cultural capital: (i) embodied capital, (ii) objectified capital, and (iii) institutionalised capital.

Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron coined and defined the term cultural capital in the essay "Cu