ABSTRACT
Pierre Bourdieu and the will to power Pierre Bourdieu maintains that there is an ever-ongoing struggle for power and status, not only between, but also within different classes in society. This struggle concerns not only position in relation to matters of production (income, occupation, education), but rather, Bourdieu also defines a class or a class fraction in terms of such features as sex-ratio, geographical distribution, ethnic origin and so on. Struggles of this sort take place within what he calls a social space, where relations between the classes are structured in accordance with the amount of, and access to, the different forms of capital (economic, cultural and social capital).
