Talk:Symbolic capital/Archives/2012

Can this be right???
The following quote from the article doesn't make sense:

Quote: ''A war hero, for example, may have symbolic capital in the context of running for political office. Symbolic capital cannot be converted to other forms of capital (economic, cultural, social).''

Surely this isn't a correct representation of a concept from a mind as great as Pierre Bourdieu's! The sentence is immediately and obviously contradictory: a war hero running for office is converting his symbolic capital into social capital - he's using it to run for office. A war hero can write a book about the experiences that made him into a war hero and gain economic and cultural capital in the process. So clearly, in this context, symbolic capital can be turned into economic, cultural and social capital. 121.73.7.84 (talk) 14:40, 2 November 2009 (UTC)