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Discuss the Relationship Between Culture and Power in Bourdieus' work. <Tab/>Central to Bourdieus' sociological work is perhaps his insights into powerful forms of social distinction. The style of his research his very different to the norm, and he often crosses over and combines areas of research that would usually be specialised areas. Some regard him as the worlds most successful survey researcher. He wanted to show a relationship between culture …

…says holds a monopoly of power through symbolic violence. He says that for a group to form they need the symbolic power as well as group identity. And life chances need to be symbolically represented to allow class mobilisation. He lacks attention to the actual processes conflict. And as Schwartz mentioned it is strange that he believes the conflict of class is only over the market situation in a country that produced the French revolution.