Let's hear it for Humpty: social exclusion, the third way and cultural capital
Let's hear it for Humpty: social exclusion, the third way and cultural capital
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让我们听听汉普蒂的说法：社会排斥、第三条道路和文化资本
DOI：
10.1080/0954896042000267143
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发表时间：
2004
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影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
R. Levitas
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作者：
R. Levitas
在新工党的修辞中，词语的含义往往比使用者的意图更多或更少。更重要的是，它们的含义取决于它们的上下文以及用户和受众的假设。少，因为他们所指的往往是不明确的和有争议的。至少从1996年起，新工党的特殊语言就成为新闻评论的一个问题，也有更系统的研究来构建新的政治话语。不同选民可以以不同方式理解的灵活概念是这一论述的重要组成部分，也是旋转和政治混淆过程的基础。这篇文章展示了这是如何既适用于“第三条道路”，也适用于“社会排斥”。它继续认为，文化资本的概念提出了一个相关的问题。对社会排斥现象的主要解释部分依赖于文化解释，而社会包容议程则通过文化部门和其他部门得到促进。这里有一个隐含的“文化资本”的概念在起作用，但这个概念与皮埃尔·布迪厄的作品中的起源有很大的分歧，并且具有非常不同的政治含义。
In the rhetoric of New Labour, words often mean both more and less than their users intend. More, in that what they connote depends on their context and the assumptions of both user and audience. Less, in that what they denote is frequently both unclear and contested. The peculiar language of New Labour has been a matter of journalistic comment at least since 1996, and there have also been more systematic studies of the construction of a new political discourse. Flexible concepts that can be understood in different ways by different constituencies are an essential part of this discourse, and are fundamental to processes of spin and political obfuscation. This article shows how this has been true of both the ‘third way’ and of ‘social exclusion’. It moves on to argue that the concept of cultural capital poses a related problem. Dominant explanations of social exclusion rely in part on cultural explanations, while agendas of social inclusion are being promoted through the cultural sector as well as elsewhere. There is an implicit idea of ‘cultural capital’ at work here, but one that diverges sharply from its origins in the work of Pierre Bourdieu, and which has very different political implications.