This article focuses on the analysis of inequality conducted by Thomas Piketty in his Capital et idéologie, with particular reference to the educational gap between the richest and the most excluded. However, while Piketty emphasizes the weight of the economic aspects, the adopted perspective recalls the Bourdieusian concepts of cultural capital, symbolic violence and cognitive submission of the dominated. This makes it possible both to show the limits of some of the proposals put forward by Piketty and to reiterate the importance of redesigning and better financing compulsory education.
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