Published: 2020-09-22

Reproduction of possessing class in face of market transformations

Łukasz Trembaczowski Logo ORCID

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of succession in family business in the perspective of class positions’ reproduction. The analysis of succession is carried out with reference to Pierre Bourdieu’s theory, particularly in relation to reconstruction entrepreneurs’ class position within
gradationally-relational model of social structure, description of economic field transformation and role played by entrepreneurs in that process, analysis of modal trajectories of entering the economic field and to strategies and forms of capitals reconversion. Transfer of capitals was entangled within model of transmission of knowledge, power and ownership in family enterprises. Succession next to starting own enterprise must be seen as one of dominant strategies for social position reproduction within a possessing class fraction. Those two ideal-type strategies can be mixed in practice of position reproduction and lead to hybridized forms of family business and new enterprise. Class position  reproduction however, can lead also outside possessing class fraction to those richer in cultural rather than economic capital. Analysis of succession cannot therefore be limited to family business only but must be considered with reference to wider context of reproduction of social structure.

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Trembaczowski, Łukasz. (2020). Reproduction of possessing class in face of market transformations. Górnośląskie Studia Socjologiczne. Seria Nowa, 11, 38–53. https://doi.org/10.31261/GSS_SN.2020.11.03

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Vol. 11 (2020)
Published: 2020-09-18


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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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