Thursday, November 20, 2014

Sullivan 2002

Sullivan, Alice. 20002. "Bourdieu and education: how useful is Bourdieu's theory for researchers?." Netherlands Journal of Social Sciences 38.2: 144-166.


  • says habitus is useless, too vague adn vacuous and impossible to use empirically
  • lots of researchers have worked on cultural capital ,but they have achieved varying results, mainly due to differences in the wy they operationalize cultural capital (155-163)
    • seems liek cultural capital can be helpful, but it is still difficult to tell if the relationshp works as it should, which is:
      • cultural capital helps one attain educational credentials which in turn help one attain better position in society (154)
  • Bourdieu claims there is a working class habitus that makes working class people more likely to self-select out of education (151, citing Bourdieu and Passeron 1977: 153)

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