Pupils' Class Identities

Question 1

(Bourdieu) What is symbolic capital and how does it lead to symbolic violence?

Answer 1

The status that MC pupils get in schools. They get this because schools have a MC habitus.

Since schools devalue WC habitus, they withhold symbolic capital which results in symbolic violence because it keeps the WC ‘in their place’

Question 2

(Bourdieu) what does symbolic violence lead to?

(Archer) what does this result in?

Answer 2

A clash between the WC habitus and the school’s habitus which makes education feel foreign

WC pupils having to change the way they presented themselves to be successful and feeling unable to access MC spaces like universities