Cultural Capital

Employing concepts drawn from Pierre Bourdieu's sociology, Guillory argues that canon formation must be understood less as a question of the representation of social groups than as a question of the distribution of "cultural capital" in the schools, which regulate access to literacy, to the practices of reading and writing.

• | By (Author): John Guillory (Author)
• | Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 01, 1995
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 408 pages
• | Language: NULL
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-10: 0226310442
• | ISBN-13: 9780226310442