Legal Consciousness and Cultural Capital.
In this article, we use a Bourdieusian framework to theorize the relationship between cultural capital and legal consciousness, and in turn to consider how variation in legal consciousness contributes to the creation and maintenance of legal hegemony. We investigate how cultural capital shapes the w...
| Publicado en: | Law & Society Review Vol. 54; no. 1; pp. 33 - 66 |
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Cambridge University Press
Mar2020
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