Bourdieu and Postcommunist Class Formation

This article suggests that Bourdieu's model of class, framed in terms of culturalcapital and habitus, is particularly valuable in understanding the restorationof capitalism under postcommunist conditions. Following the analyses of Szelényiand his collaborators, it is suggested that post-communist managerialism isstill strikingly more pronounced than in the West. This and the notion ofhabitus in particular are perhaps the main elements of Bourdieu's thinking onwhich we can draw in theorizing postcommunist transition.