Tastes, credentials, and manners work as inheritable assets that reproduce class position.
Bourdieu's 1979 argument that knowing which fork, which composer and which register is a transmissible asset that schools reward while appearing to reward merit alone.
In practice
- A candidate who knows not to ask about holiday allowance in the first interview learned it somewhere that is not on any CV.
- A graduate scheme selects for "polish", which is a set of habits acquired at home and priced as merit.
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- Sociology & Culture
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- How societies hold together, sort people, and change