Pierre Bourdieu's collected writings on education in this volume are crucial milestones on the path to a new cultural sociology, which ultimately demonstrates its full explosive power in the groundbreaking study "Distinction." A complex of motives is unfolded that examines the close relationship between education and social reproduction. It offers a glimpse behind the scenes of equal opportunity, focusing on the social dimensions of educational privilege and providing a relevant assessment of the symbolic power relations in our modern class societies to this day.