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SIGNS OF THE SACRED: THE CONFUCIAN BODY AND SYMBOLIC POWER Lim Tae-seung Academy of East Asian Studies, Sungkyunkwan University lintsh@skku.edu Introduction The sociology of symbolic power, as put forth by Pierre Bourdieu, treats the relations between behavior and socio-cultural structure. Bourdieu comprehends culture as a form of capital that follows certain laws of accumulation, exchange, and operation, and emphasizes that its symbolic form plays an important role in establishing and maintaining power structures. Bourdieu’s concept of cultural capital comprises a variety of resources such as language capabilities, general cultural consciousness, aesthetic symbols, educational information, and level of education. His analysis of cultural capital reveals three different processes of its formation. First, education fosters its formation, internalizing it through the socialization process of individuals and from an early age casting a cognitive matrix to appreciate cultural commodities. In this case, cultural capital exists as an internal property of individual subjects. Sec- ond, cultural capital exists in an objective form as, for instance, books and artistic products, which in turn demand appreciation by a connoisseur. Third, in Bourdieu’s theory cultural capital exists as an institutional form, that is, in the form of educa- tional institutions. The relations between symbolic form and
Philosophy East and West – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Oct 23, 2015
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