- Title
- (Sub)Cultural capital, DIY careers and transferability: towards maintaining 'reproduction' when using Bourdieu in youth culture research
- Creator
- Threadgold, Steven
- Relation
- Youth Cultures and Subcultures: Australian Perspectives p. 53-63
- Relation
- https://www.routledge.com/products/isbn/9781472426659
- Publisher
- Ashgate
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- This chapter argues that when using Bourdieu in the study of subcultures, there needs to be an effort to maintain the critical nature of his theories. In some cultural studies work, Bourdieu seems to be used somewhat functionally or descriptively. In these cases, highly valued knowledges, symbols, associations and tastes of a subcultural field are described as cultural capital. Yet, cultural capital is a concept that is meant to help understand not just how any field works, but how fields are hierarchical and how some fields are more important than others. In this sense, cultural capital needs to be defined as 'advantageous attributions' that lubricates social and economic advantage. This paper argues that Thornton's notion of subcultural capital is still useful for understanding and describing notions of authenticity, coolness and distinction within subcultural fields. But to maintain the reproduction emphasis in Bourdieu's work, these things need to be transferable or parlayed into supporting an economically sustainable career to be considered cultural capital.
- Subject
- subcultures; Pierre Bourdieu; youth culture; adolescences
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1316484
- Identifier
- uon:23178
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781472426659
- Language
- eng
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