Eh, I’m not sure about separating class from social capital. In Bourdieu’s framework (which tbf is dated), there are definitely haves and have-nots. The way different forms of social capital are valued in different contexts is one of the major ways that social hierarchies gatekeep and maintain themselves.
Even in Bourdieu's framework economic, cultural and symbolic capital might well be more relevant to class distinction. That would seem to be the gist of his work on distinction and the judgment of taste, at least. Social capital plays a role in that it can be downstream of the distinction created by other dynamics, but not necessarily in "more" social capital throughout a community leading to "more" distinction. If anything, one would expect the opposite.
That’s fair. In retrospect I was thinking more of cultural capital (which I’ll chalk up to how contemporary critiques of Bourdieu tend to conflate them).
