David Brooks, NY Times, Getting Radical About Inequality, July 18, 2017Įxcerpts from Article on Bourdieu in Social Theory Re-Wired Or, we seek to take one form of capital, say linguistic ability, and convert it into another kind of capital, a good job."
We seek to topple those who have higher standing than we have and we seek to wall off those who are down below.
"The symbolic marketplace is like the commercial marketplace it’s a billion small bids for distinction, prestige, attention and superiority.Įvery minute or hour, in ways we’re not even conscious of, we as individuals and members of our class are competing for dominance and respect. We vie as individuals and as members of our class for prestige, distinction and, above all, the power of consecration - the power to define for society what is right, what is “natural,” what is “best.” - David Brooks, NY Times, Getting Radical About Inequality, July 18, 2017Ĭompeting with Others in the Symbolic Marketplace Every day, Bourdieu argued, we take our stores of social capital and our habitus and we compete in the symbolic marketplace. He’s a genius at upending the social rules and hierarchies that the establishment classes (of both right and left) have used to maintain dominance. Trump is not much of a policy maven, but he’s a genius at the symbolic warfare Bourdieu described. The Symbolic Warfare of Trump B ourdieu helps you understand what Donald Trump is all about.
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