About Musa al-Gharbi
About Symbolic Capital(ism)
When sociologists talk about “capitalists,” we are not typically referring to regular people who support capitalism or engage in trade. Capitalists, in the sociological sense, are people who own the means of production, and use this wealth (capital) to extract "surplus value" from workers — allowing themselves (the capitalists) to acquire income and wealth without providing physical goods and services for people (like the workers do). Capitalists, in the sociological sense, are defined by ownership and wealth. Their primary currency is actual money.
Symbolic capitalists, on the other hand, trade primarily in legitimation and administration. Their primary currency is status.