Aubrey, K. and Riley, A. (2017) Understanding & Using Challenging Educational Theories, London: Sage, Chapter 6 (Pierre Bourdieu) pp77-90
1.Bourdieu is perhaps best known for his work on capital, to conceptualise inequality and social stratification. pp78
2. Key words of Bourdieu: "habitus", "fields", "symbolic violence"
Johannesson, I.A. and Popkewitz, T. (2001) 'Pierre Bourdieu, 1930-' In: Palmer, J.(Ed) Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present. London: Routledge. pp203
habitus: structured and structuring mental structure through which individuals acquire their views and behavior as a second nature.
3. For Bourdieu the aim was to see the world in an entirely different way, and to facilitate social change, thereby promoting a more equitable society. pp79
4. A key focus for Bourdieu was social inequality (Dillon, 2014), asserting that everyday culture and social interaction was, to a great extent, dictated by social class and class interaction. pp81
Dillon, M.(2014) Introduction to Sociological Theory: Theorists, Concepts and Their Applicability to the Twenty-first century. West Sussex: Blackwell Publishing.
5. For Bourdieu, capital and power amounted to the same thing, and he saw that there was a vast chasm between those who were best provided with economic and cultural capital and those who were the most deprived.(Bourdieu,1979[1984] ). pp81
Bourdieu, P. (1979[1984]) Distinction. Abingdson: Routledge.
6.(Bourdieu)…… identified three fundamental types of capital: social, culture and economic, with the two former able to convert to the latter. pp84
