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Positionality of the subjects and families in society in terms of their social, cultural, and economic capitals.

Literature that suggests that our social ties, social connections, and social networks are crucial resources, especially for status and income attainment.

Explore the role of the hispano/latino children and teenagers as cultural/social/media brokers in the USA.

Bourdieu argues that an understanding of the multiple forms of capital will help elucidate the structure and functioning of the social world.

Notions of cultural capital and taste

Conflicts for social dominance through culture.

Taste is not stable and peaceful, but a means of strategy and competition.

Those superior in wealth use it to pretend they are superior in spirit.

Drawing social status from different sources : using taste and its attainments to get a leg up.

Can literacies be used in this sense? Can literacies be used for mobilizing cultural capital? Are they cultural capital?

What is the relationship of literacies to taste?

the nose and the tongue for culture and taste.

lower-middle-class young, desires to move up through style, but with no backstop of parental culture or family capital >>> there is a real concern for style in some of these young people : Antonio, Sergio, and Javier for instance, believe they have alternative artsy, creative industry like, styles.

Weak and strong positions depending of the cultural capital

Can literacies be used as cultural capital? as distinction? as makers of style? What is the relationship of taste and literacies?

Bibliography on Cultural capital

Lamont, Michèle and Lareau, Annette, Cultural Capital: Allusions, Gaps and Glissandos in Recent Theoretical Developments (1988). Sociological Theory, 6(2): 153-168, 1988. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2131347