Signs of the Sacred: The Confucian Body and Symbolic Power

Philosophy East and West 65 (4):1030-1051 (2015)
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The sociology of symbolic power, as put forth by Pierre Bourdieu, treats the relations between behavior and socio-cultural structure. Bourdieu comprehends culture as a form of capital that follows certain laws of accumulation, exchange, and operation, and emphasizes that its symbolic form plays an important role in establishing and maintaining power structures.1 Bourdieu’s concept of cultural capital comprises a variety of resources such as language capabilities, general cultural consciousness, aesthetic symbols, educational information, and level of education.2 His analysis of cultural capital reveals three different processes of its formation.3 First, education fosters its formation, internalizing it through the..

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