Pierre Bourdieu: A Social Analysis

Social reproduction is a theory which is arguing that social inequalities tend to reproduce themselves across generations in terms of money, education and positions no matter in which society, or to put it in other words, it is a theory explaining how class(rich or poor) reproduce itself. That theory is developed by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu who explains it through his characteristic theoretical vocabulary of habitus, capital and field. Bor

Species of capital
Economic capital, this is the command over economic resources such as cash or assets. Cultural capital, consists every knowledge experiences or network of connections that a man has had built through his life, all this enables him or her to succeed more than someone with a different suit of knowledge, experiences or connections. Cultural capital allows one to be familiar with and easily using the institutionalized and valued cultural forms in a particular field. Social capital, is a resource sources based on group membership, relationships, networks of influences and support. Symbolic capital, is comprised from resources available to an individual on the basis of honor, prestige or recognition. According to Bourdieu, these capital resources are used ‘by agents …show more content…
The habitus Is the structure through which one produces his taught and actions which in turn creates his external social structures, or in other words, the habitus structures the social world and it is structured by the social world. Thus habitus could be considered as the collective individuated through the biological individual. Habitus could be similar within groups of people, so it could be seen as a collective phenomenon. Habitus constrains but do not determine taught and action. Taught and action are constrain because the habitus only suggest what a person should