Review article

Cultural Capital, Habitus and Rational Choice

Žarko Paić ; Public University, Ivanić-Grad

Abstract

The paper discusses the impossibility of constructing a new, postsocialist society - regarding the processes of modernization in the economy, culture and
politics - via an institutionalization of norms. This leads to critical investigation of ideology as a legitimized network of societal action constructed by new political elites. Borrowing basic categories from the historical sociology of N. Elias and, particularly, from Bourdieu’s theory of cultural capital and habitus, the author sketches a theoretical framework for examining the socio-cultural model of rationality. Finally, the author offers a (pessimistic?) hypothesis about the future of cultural capital and Croatia’s strategy of development.

Keywords

cultural capital; habitus; ideology; rationality

Hrčak ID:

154570

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/154570

Publication date:

31.12.1995.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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