Forms of Capital

Forms of Capital Pierre Bordieu

Capatilist economics, in its focus on mercantile capital, regulates non-mercantile exchange as ‘disinterested'

-> The point of much of our digital activity is the commodification of social and cultural capital. (Authenticity, networks) the people who use these services are unaware of the “more subtle economy of time"

Could we take Bordieu’s point that even the “democratic equality” function of schools is a private good, to critique Dreeben? Social capital “manages to combine the prestige of innate property with the merits of acquisition”  “the social conditions of its transmission and acquisition are more disguised than economic capital”, making it an ideal medium for satisfying the double-promise of schools—of reproducing privilege while seeming to be a meritocracy of equal opportunity for social mobility.  

“escapes observation and control (so that the educational system seems to award its honors solely to natural qualities)"