Bourdieu’s critical analysis of capital (BCAC) is a useful tool for unmasking how schools legitimate class structure and identifying the institutional, societal, and cultural forces that structure class reproduction and oppression. In this paper, we examine the ways educational researchers have constrained the critical application of Bourdieu’s concepts. We highlight the utility of BCAC for exposing the symbolic violence that educational systems enact upon students and families who are unfamiliar with the “culture of power.” Our purpose is to engage in a revitalized critique against the reproduction of educational inequalities and explicate how BCAC is useful toward these ends.

布尔迪厄的资本批判分析 (BCAC) 是揭示学校如何合法化阶级结构并确定构成阶级再生产和压迫的制度、社会和文化力量的有用工具。在本文中，我们研究了教育研究人员限制布尔迪厄概念的批判性应用的方式。我们强调 BCAC 在揭露教育系统对不熟悉“权力文化”的学生和家庭施加的象征性暴力方面的效用。我们的目的是重新批判教育不平等的再现，并阐明 BCAC 如何实现这些目标。