This article examines evolving uses of Bourdieu's signature concept of Cultural Capital in
American educational research. Bourdieu originally developed the concept in the 1960s and …

The aim of this paper is to address the dynamics of contemporary cultural capital by
interrogating what counts for young people as valuable cultural resources. Considerable …

This paper takes stock of recent research on patterns of cultural engagement in various
European nations, with specific reference to British and Danish research. It argues that …

Multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) is a statistical technique that first and foremost has
become known through the work of the late Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002). This book will …

This article analyses how DIY ('Do It Yourself') music producers act in entrepreneurial ways
to generate 'buzz'from an economically constrained position. Through semi-structured …

Contemporary society is complex; governed and administered by a range of contradictory
policies, practices and techniques. Nowhere are these contradictions more keenly felt than …

Evidence is emerging from across Europe that contemporary agri-environmental schemes
are having only limited, if any, influence on farmers' long-term attitudes towards the …

Pierre Bourdieu's recasting of the question of class exemplifies the major features of his
sociology and the way he extends, melds, and mends classical views into a distinctive …

In sociological debates about cultural stratification, a matter of dispute is whether Bourdieu's
model of class-structured lifestyle differences has relevance for understanding contemporary …

This paper considers how the analysis of cultural engagement can be elaborated through a
reworking of the concept of cultural capital, as originally derived from Bourdieu's (1984) …