Preface to the 1990 Edition - Pierre Bourdieu // Foreword Tom Bollomore // Foreword to the French Edition by the Authors // Translator’s Note // About the Authors and Translator // Book I: Foundations of a Theory of Symbolic Violence // Book II: Keeping Order // 1 Cultural Capital and Pedagogic Communication Unequal Selection and Unequal Selectedness From the Logic of the System to the Logic of its Transformations // 2 The Literate Tradition and Social Conservation Pedagogic Authority and the Authority of Language Language and Relation to Language Conversation and Conservation // 3 Exclusion and Selection. The Examination within the Structure and History of the Educational System Examination and Unexamined Exclusion Technical Selection and Social Selection // 4 Dependence through Independence The Particular Functions of ‘the General Interest’ Undifferentiated Functions and Indifference to Differences // The Ideological Function of the Educational System // Appendix: The Changing Structure of Higher Education Opportunities: Redistribution or Translation? // Glossary of Institutions and Titles // Bibliography // Index // List of Tables