阶层流动还是阶层复制？再读文化资本理论并兼谈“底层文化资本”

Recent scholarship has developed the notion of "underclass cultural capital" as a means to challenge and reduce stigma associated with socioeconomically disadvantaged populations in rural contexts. Nonetheless, this emergent concept appears predicated upon a fundamental misinterpretation of Bourdieu's seminal cultural capital framework. Prevailing exegeses of cultural capital have erroneously equated it with a set of cultural resources leveraged for social mobility. In stark contrast, Bourdieu's original articulation sought to elucidate the mechanisms underpinning the perpetuation of social class hierarchies and to unmask the obscured power dynamics within societal structures that facilitate this continuity. Bourdieu contends that cultural capital should not be construed as a collection of specific cultural attributes but rather as the capacity and agency to assimilate the dominant culture, a process optimally quantified through the prism of accumulated labor time. Additionally, the stratified distribution of