Define and distinguish between economic, cultural, and symbolic capital. Provide examples from real life of who would possess these three forms.
What will be an ideal response?
Economic capital refers to the material resources—wealth, land, money—that one controls or possesses. Cultural capital refers to nonmaterial goods such as educational credentials, types of knowledge and expertise, verbal skills, and aesthetic preferences that can be converted into economic capital. Commonly labeled prestige, honor, reputation, or charisma, symbolic capital is converted economic or cultural capital denied as capital, “recognized as legitimate, that is, misrecognized as capital” (Bourdieu 1990b:118).
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What will be an ideal response?
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