Legitimate culture

The culture legitimates indicates the type of knowledge and knowledge which appears legitimate with the eyes of all (all individuals of the same company).

This concept was developed by the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu.

In its study on the inequalities with the School, Bourdieu shows that certain types of knowledge are developed better than of others by educational establishment.

  • For example, knowledge in traditional literature is developed better at the school than knowledge on the history of the rock'n'roll.

That induces the idea that in the Culture (in the broad sense) of the same company, there exist more or less legitimate Sous-culture S.

Following that, Bourdieu utilizes the concept of cultural Capital. The cultures not being being equivalent by their values, they compose of the capital with which the individuals are unequally equipped. Bourdieu uses much the expression " culture légitime" in its work the Distinction

Quotation

“the thoughts of the dominant class are also, at all the times, the dominant thoughts. ” Karl Marx, the German Ideology

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