Capital: Economic, Cultural, and Social

Abstract

The trifold distinction of capital as economic, cultural, and social was popularized by Pierre Bourdieu. While these concepts have enjoyed widespread utilization by sociological scholars, there is often intra‐conceptual confusion such that scholars employ widely varying operationalizations rooted in disparate theoretical traditions. This variety invites a discerning eye and is evidence of the fecundity of this trifold distinction of capital as economic, cultural, and social.