The Capital Study Of Painting And Calligraphy Freelancers’ Status Attainment

Today the study of modernization, individual are still hot in sociologicalstudy, the freelancers, capital study which are related to them are also emergein endlessly. Painting and calligraphy freelancers is a special kind offreelancers, as they play the role of the carrier of culture inheritance inthousands of years, their means of livelihood mode and the status attainmenthave changed with the development of the times. This article is the study ofpainting and calligraphy freelancers’ status attainment under perspective ofBourdieu’s capital theory. The emphasis is to study the logic of the capital inthe art field of painting and calligraphy, focus on the transformation of theeconomic, cultural, and social capital. Painting and calligraphy freelancers’traditional status attainment mode mainly are consanguineous,teacher-student inherited and the self-accumulation of capital, due to thecompetition and limitation in the art field, capital distribution is in a state ofdisequilibrium for a very long time. The single of attainment and unbalance ofcapital distribution leads to their special difficulty, But as the change of modernsociety, great changes have taken place in the economic to the ideologicalfield, along with the development of the market mechanism, flourish ofnon-governmental organizations; media agents reform and progress astechnology innovation and information explosion continuously; network culturechanges from spreading to the interactive; gradually development of privateeducation institutions, These are painting and calligraphy freelancers’ newplatform and way of accumulation of capital, which makes them break thestatus of the uneven distribution of capital for a long time more likely. It’s easier to gain status, power of competition within the field, to participate in the "game".This article is through participant observation, collecting and organizing fieldinformation, to analyze the logic of capital transformation of painting andcalligraphy freelancers, so that we can discuss how they accumulate capitaland attainment the status, in the analysis process, come up with someimmature suggestions and opinions for freelancers to change the difficulties.