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Sosyolog, Yazar
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Saint-Étienne, Fransa, 15 Mayıs 1946
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Cultural Complicities
School can take the place of the family milieubut it depends on which school, of course. Éva Thomassin, as we have seen, daughter of a rich family originally from Argentina, boarder at a Lausanne school frequented by royal children and heirs of great international fortunes, shows that these exceptional private schools replicate this relationship of complicity with the cultural universe. "We took a trip to Italy, from Milan to Naples; all of Italyvisiting museums. I will never forget that trip! The marvelous trains of that era, the paintings I saw in museums. We must have been very, very well escorted, to have succeeded in getting us to like Fra Angelicos at that point. . . Unforgettable! to the point that when I see a picture today, I immediately recognize it. The other day I said: Ah! that is a Filippo Lippi. You don't forget these things." This cultural training always has as a social dimension: it is a question of mastering the culture necessary to efficiently manage the social capital. "They prepared us to go into a salon and know how to converse intelligently, in a cultivated manner." In any case, what characterizes the schools favored by the great families resides in the complementary fashion with which they assure the transmission of all forms of capital: academic, cultural, and also social, symbolic and even physical, by the importance granted to the body and sports. In sum, a complete education for a complete person.
Cultural Complicities
Countess Jean dePange describes the family home, property of her grandparents, in these terms. "Magnificent furniture and art objects from [grandfather's] collection filled the house. The ground floor, especially, was a real museum." Then she shows how the elements of this museum entered into her education. "The armchairs and sofas of the grand salons were covered with tapestries, very beautiful, that represented fables or scenes from mythology. My grandmother invented a game of pursuit between the pieces of furniture, from one armchair to another, while chanting: 'Let's walk through the forest today/Let's go while the wolf is away!' But, while making a path through the furniture, she gave me explanations of the characters and animals from ancient myths. She knew the histories of these Greek and Roman gods perfectly." Through this family heritage, academic culture enters into the domestic sphere, curls up there like a cat on a sofa, and purrs, completely at its ease. Familiar animal, it is an everyday companion, it is alive and warm, comforting by its constant presence that assures the continuity between the domestic and the public, between the family culture and that of museums, of performance halls, of educational establishments.
Swiss Schools
The Association of the Ancient Rosarians (AIAR) is charged with multiplying the international capital so accumulated. "The international friendships woven during years of study are an inestimable capital: everywhere in the world there is an Ancient Rosarian ready to welcome and to help another." [18]
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18. From the College of Le Rosey's promotional literature.
Cultural Complicities
Culture is not an individual's expertise, acquired by a deliberately pro-active attitude directed toward the establishments that specialize in its diffusion, but a manner of being, a way of living, an element of the habitus like courtesy, respect for ancestors and traditions, and a taste for being among one's peers.
Familiarity with culture also depends on financial comfort. Véronique de Montremy remembers the bookstore at the comer of the Avenue Marceau "where Papa had opened for us an absolutely unlimited account, which was brilliant because the director of the bookstore adored all foreign literature. Every Saturday afternoon we spent at least an hour discussing foreign books. Papa was very centered on the 19th and 20th centuries of France, so that it is thanks to this lady, a sort of intellectual mentor, that we read a lot of foreign literature." Her maternal grandmother made it possible for her to attend the Bayreuth Festival as a reward for passing the baccalaureat exam. "So I went to Bayreuth for my graduation. Culture was integrated into our life indeed."
Cultural Complicities
Academic culture is a fundamental element of the implicit pedagogy implemented by the upper classes. The cultural rally, the first stage of those rallies that bring together exclusively, through the use of closed invitation lists, adolescents who belong to the same world, is one of the social forms of familiarization with works of culture. Indeed,
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