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What we can learn from the cultural capital to reflect upon the erotic capital

In this article some analyses on cultural capital have been retrieved. Based on them, we interrogated about their usefulness for analyzing erotic capital. The work focuses primarily on two issues. The first one is the weak institutionalization of erotic capital, when compared to the weight given to cultural capital. The second one is related to how we can analyze the body inequalities in response to certain problems regarding the sociological and philosophical research on cultural capital. We conclude by asserting that erotic capital can be considered a kind of cultural capital. The article also defines the conditions under which individuals can fight against forms of domination linked to erotic capital.

Cultural capital; Erotic capital; Cultural inequalities; Body inequalities; French sociology


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