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The working
classes have little
"cultural capital"
and systematically
lose out in the
battle for cultural
power. When
"cultural capital" is
invested in the
exercise of taste, it
yields both high
profit for those who
possess it and a
"profit in
legitimacy" which
is the justification
of the ruling class
to be the ruling
class, to be what it
is "right" to be.
Bourdieu argues
this point in
Distinction (1980).
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