Pierre Bourdieu, Cultural Capital and Social Hierarchy

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In this video I explain the fundemental terms of Bourdieu's cultural capital theory. While explaining the terms, I add examples of social inequality, cultural phenomena, art and some interesting cases of Taiwanese society.
The episode is based on scientific research, university classes and academic sources (see below for references)

Timestamps:
(00:00) - Introduction, Modern Art
(02:00) - Background Bourdieu, Marx, Capital
(05:05) - Economic, Social and Symbolic Capital
(12:20) - Cultural Capital (Objectified and Institutionalized)
(18:42) - Embodied Cultural Capital
(24:07) - Class difference and taste
(27:00) - Cultural Omnivore & Critique
(30:27) - Taiwanese Academic Hiphop
(32:23) - Outro

References:
Bourdieu, P., & Steinrücke, M. (1992). Die verborgenen Mechanismen der Macht. In VSA-Verlag eBooks.
Friedman, S., & Laurison, D. (2020). The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged. Social Forces, 99(1), e5.
Goldthorpe, J. H. (2007). “Cultural Capital”: Some critical observations. Sociologia, 2, 0.
Hahl, O., Zuckerman, E. W., & Kim, M. (2017). Why Elites Love Authentic Lowbrow Culture: Overcoming High-Status Denigration with Outsider Art. American Sociological Review, 82(4), 828–856.
Huang, X. (2019). Understanding Bourdieu - Cultural Capital and Habitus. Review of European Studies, 11(3), 45.
Jarness, V., & Friedman, S. (2017). ‘I’m not a snob, but. . .’: Class boundaries and the downplaying of difference. Poetics, 61, 14–25.
Jungbauer-Gans, M. (2004). The Influence of Social and Cultural Capital on Reading Achievement. Zeitschrift Für Soziologie, 33(5), 375–397.
Peterson, R. A. (1997). The rise and fall of highbrow snobbery as a status marker. Poetics, 25(2–3), 75–92.
Peterson, R. A., & Kern, R. M. (1996). Changing highbrow taste: from snob to omnivore. American Sociological Review, 61(5), 900.

Thank you to my Sociology professor in Taiwan for giving me the idea for this episode!