contradictions fissure this crystal palace of reified economic and political realities

Bourdieu’s attempt to explain habitus as a result of class is thus vitiated by a basic conceptual weakness.

The ludic metaphor that underlies the idea of the field

the term capitalism, in contrast to capital, appears almost nowhere in his work. This lacuna weakens his account of reproduction,

French degree holders thus were in the grips of a form of false consciousness. They thought their degrees entitled them to certain positions that would have been available to them in a previous state of the field, but these positions were becoming scarce as more people entered higher education.