symbolic capital and symbolic violence

• Because schools have a m/c habitus. Students who have been scoialised at home into m/c tatses and preferences gain symbolic capital or status and recognition from the school and are deemed to have value.
• the school devalues the w/c habitus so that w/c tastes like clothing are viewed as worthless
• Bordieu refers to the withholding of symbolic capital as symbolic violence
• symbolic violence refers to being socialised into values that do not align with the schools values
• By defining the w/c lifestyle and tastes as inferior, symbolic violence reproduces the class structure that keeps lower classes in their place
• there is a clash between w/c habitus and school's m/c habitus resulting in w/c students experiencing isolation and alienation in the education system
• Archer found that w/c students felt that in order to be successful in eduaction they would have to change how they talk and the way they presented themselves
• w/c students feel like they are expected to sacrifice their w/c habitus and identity in order to succeed and eventually gain social mobility
• w/c students feel unable to access posh m/c spaces like university and prefessional careers