Social mechanisms maintain the stock and power of cultural capital however well they are hidden.
These mechanisms reward those with cultural capital and ensure it is passed on to inheritors worthy of it. The ruling ideas, in every age, the ideas of the ruling class'Marx. Science becomes a component of politics because the scientific way of grasping reality is used to define the interests that political actors articulate and defend. A Critique of the Modern Economy in the Light of Goethe's Faust 1994, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London Almost literary analysis. Faust as alchemical text.