Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition - Pierre Bourdieu
Foreword - Tom Bottomore
PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF A THEORY OF SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE
PART TWO: KEEPING ORDER
Cultural Capital and Pedagogic Communication
The Literate Tradition and Social Conservation
Exclusion and Selection
Dependence through Independence
Appendix
The Changing Structure of Higher Education Opportunities
Redistribution or Translation?

Reviews

Reveals new features in the analysis of social classes and political power. Arising probably from the intense interest in cultural dominance and cultural revolution that emerged in radical movements... these investigations connect cultural phenomena firmly within the structural characteristics of a society, and begin to show how a culture produced by this structure in turn helps to maintain it.
*Tom Bottomore*

The most striking successes of their work are their redefinitions of the very character of educational research... There is an especially brilliant discussion of the relations between a traditional literary culture and selection for arts courses. 
*Raymond Williams*