ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents an overview of key concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. Bourdieu is primarily a social theorist whose ideas have spread across many disciplines. The continuing relevance of Bourdieus theoretical framework is often best verified through practical application of his concepts, which may explain his popularity among empirical researchers. Lindsey Garratt argues that Bourdieusian theory and in particular the concepts of habitus, embodied cultural capital and hexis can helps one to understand the process through which bodily phenotypes are constructed as objects of value or as valueless, but concurrently how this construction is inculcated within our bodies as the site of practice. The inability to trade ones cultural capital because it has only limited value or is not recognised in the places where value can be accrued is a substantial disadvantage to and sign of being born working-class. Social mobility is a wrenching process.
