![]() ![]() For both Marx and Bourdieu the more capital you have the more powerful you are.īourdieu defined cultural capital as ‘familiarity with the legitimate culture within a society’ what we might call ‘ high culture’. Bourdieu believed that cultural capital played an important, and subtle role. Karl Marx believed economic capital (money and assets) dictated your position in a social order. ![]() In the 1970s Pierre Bourdieu, a French sociologist, developed the idea of cultural capital as a way to explain how power in society was transferred and social classes maintained. Where did the term cultural capital come from? In this blog post we provide a quick summary of some of the history, academic thinking and definitions of this key term. For the first time the new Ofsted framework requires schools to develop their pupils’ cultural capital. ![]()
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