...the majority and minority parties represent almost exclusively the
intelligentsia and what we would call the Philippine plutocracy, and that the
needy classes have no representation in these parties and for these reasons
they have neither voice nor vote, even only as minorities, in the formulation
of governmental policies...
1.
symbolic capital as the acquisition of a reputation for competence and an
image of respectability and honorability..." (p. 291)
2.
Among Filipino families, education is considered as the "ticket to success."
3.
"I believe that ownership of property is crucial to the definition of class.
Where class referred to social differences based on economic divisions and
inequalities, status designated the differentiation of groups in the communal
sphere in terms of their social honor and social standing".
"In the social production of their life, men enter into definite relations that are
indispensable and independent of their will; these relations of production
correspond to a definite stage of development of their material forces of
production
5.
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