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Pierre Bourdieu, the habitus, social capital: Briefly describe Bourdieu's theory of the social field, habitus and doxa. How do people assume their identity and gain skills in a particular social field? How does this process reproduce class positions? How does cultural capital ensure the success of what today we call nepo babies? Give some contemporary examples. Ideology, the various mechanisms and institutions: Describe the Marxist concept of ideology, and the update by other Marxists, such as Althusser, Mannheim, Lucaks and Bourdieu. What were Althusser's distinction of ideological and repressive state apparatuses? Why do states generally rather rely on ideology than repression? What are some contemporary examples of ideology? Paragraph forms. Need Assignment Help?