Forms of Capital
This is the third of five volumes based on the lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the Coll ge de France in the early 1980s under the title 'General Sociology'. In these lectures, Bourdieu sets out…
Specifikacia Forms of Capital
This is the third of five volumes based on the lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the Coll ge de France in the early 1980s under the title 'General Sociology'. In these lectures, Bourdieu sets out to define and defend sociology as an intellectual discipline, and in doing so he introduces and clarifies all the key concepts which have come to define his distinctive intellectual approach.In this volume, Bourdieu focuses on one of his key concepts - capital. This is the third concept in the trilogy of concepts - habitus, capital, field - that define the core of his theoretical approach. A field, as a social space of relatively durable relations between agents and institutions, is also a site of specific investments, which presupposes the possession of specific forms of capital and secures both material and symbolic profits. While there are many different forms of capital,