“Specific capital” can and does include money (how much and from where), competition within the institution, scientific or social authority, capital and power over capital, and degrees of autonomy. Again, he does not employ citations very often, but this will be discussed …show more content…
A few merits were that Bourdieu had a definite voice, composed with a clear structure, and employed a precise vocabulary. Conversely, the demerits: at no point did Bourdieu wholly state his argument, or an argument at all really. His statements resembled opinions more than arguments seeing as the majority of the paper referenced nothing aside from whatever statement he had made previously; while the assertions seemed correct by virtue of common knowledge, prevailing philosophy does not a valid source make. He also wrote his sentences incredibly long: each paragraph (½-⅓ page long) contained around 2-3 sentences. On page nineteen, there is a single sentence that is eleven text lines in