Access to written culture as part of the social reproduction strategies of rural families in Cordoba (Argentina)

Abstract

In a previous study (Cragnolino, 2009), given the concerns raised by NLS, I discussed the analytical possibilities involved in putting into play, the perspective of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu as a way to understand the practices and processes of access to and appropriation of written culture. Here, I am interested in taking up some of these ideas again, to go more deeply into how certain practices of reading and writing are incorporated and transformed as part of the social reproduction strategies of families of peasant origin. I reconstruct the history of a group of rural families living in the north of Cordoba, Argentina for over 40 years; between 1930 and the mid-70's. My aim is to analyze the changes in the relationships they establish with reading and writing as their objective positions change in the economic, social and cultural fields and according to the transformations of the dispositions acquired throughout their histories.