• Cultural Capital: refers to non-financial social assets that promote social mobility beyond economic means, e.g. education, intellect, style of speech, dress and physical appearance
• insufficient or the 'wrong' cultural capital can prevent you from realising your aspirations and dreams

• Subcultural Capital: the cultural knowledge and commodities acquired by members of a subculture, raising their status and helping differentiate themselves from members of other groups
• Self-policing and elimination, 'deploying their own versions of subculture as a rationale for their own exclusion' (p.2) 

• Self-efficacy: an individuals belief in his/her capacity to execute behaviours necessary to produce specific performance attainments; reflects confidence in ability to exert control over one's own motivation, behaviour and social environment

• How can self-efficacy be developed?
  -> representation! 

• 'Awkward' questions to ask about the social and institutional structures that support and maintain hierarchies of taste according to Eleonora Belfiore: 'If the debate on cultural value is to go beyond an empty rhetoric of self-celebration then it needs to  be an occasion in which awkward questions are asked of the sector as a whole. '
• 'For whom does the sector generate value?'
• 'What do organisations big and small do to live up to their status as public cultural organisations?'
• Amadasun adds:
• 'Do we want to encourage cultural omnivores by diversifying taste and/or do we want a radical overhaul of the very values that make distinctions between 'high' and 'low' culture?'
• 'How do we survive and make some progress in our day-to-day lives?'

‘For Bourdieu the body, how we carry ourselves, how we dress, how we feel, was key to how the game of power within any field was played out. When there is a fit between us and a particular social field there is ‘ontological complicity’; we are like fish in water.’ - page 1

'It does not feel the weight of the water, and it takes the world for granted.’ (p.127) - Pierre Bourdieu 

When reading this text, I could not help but think about all these classic American teenage high-school films and
 Questions I ask myself now: