“Ragazze mie, bisogna andare avanti”. Riflessioni bourdesiane sulla trasmissione d’impresa di padre in figlia

In this short essay I reflect on some theoretical issues that emerged from a research on generational transmission of family wineries (twelve case studies) in Veneto. The research was based on thirty-five in-depth interviews, in the form of life stories, and focuses on the experience of fathers and daughters reasoning about inheritance and business continuity. Working on the theoretical tools proposed by Pierre Bourdieu, I explore the intersection between family social reproduction, formal equal opportunities discourses and patrilineal cultures of business transfer. Building on results, I discuss the social representations of “order” by the protagonists, highlighting a use of the concept of habitus as instrument to investigate the gender sub-text of the practical knowledge embedded in a social field.