September 2008
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Barack Obama: Indie Rocker →
In the mid-1970’s, French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu coined the term cultural capital to refer to the knowledge, values and skills required to, among other things, appreciate “high art.” Culture and power reinforced each other, Bourdieu argued, and consuming high art was a way for possessors of cultural capital to demonstrate their social status. Applying Bourdieu’s ideas in a 2005 journal...