From Cultural Capital to Symbolic Violence——Rethinking CET Reform from the Perspective of CDA

1. the Shift of English from a Language to Cultural Capital The notions of cultural capital and symbolic violence are central to the understanding of Bourdieu’s educational theory. In the first place, Bourdieu carried Marx’s theory of capital a step further to broaden it. According to Bourdieu, besides economic capital which was dealt with at length in Marx’s and Webber’ economic theory, capital has another two forms—cultural capital and social capital. These three forms of capital al…