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In which a crowd of overwhelmingly white male American SW engineers tries to find a mathematical explanation to bias...

"For Bourdieu, cultural capital is the status culture of a society's elite insofar as that group has embedded it in social institutions, so that it is widely and stably understood to be prestigious. Schools take it as a sign of native academic ability but do not themselves impart it, performing acts of social alchemy that transform class privilege into individual merit."



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