Editing Intellectual (section)

=== Latin America ===
The American academic [[Peter H. Smith]] describes the intellectuals of Latin America as people from an identifiable social class, who have been conditioned by that common experience and thus are inclined to share a set of [[Value (ethics)|common assumptions]] (values and ethics); that ninety-four per cent of intellectuals come either from the [[middle class]] or from the [[upper class]] and that only six per cent come from the [[working class]].
<ref>{{cite book|title=A view from Latin America|last=Smith|first=Peter H.|publisher=The New History|date=2017}}</ref>

Philosopher [[Steve Fuller (sociologist)|Steven Fuller]] said that because [[cultural capital]] confers [[power (social and political)|power]] and social status as a status group they must be autonomous in order to be credible as intellectuals:

{{Blockquote|It is relatively easy to demonstrate autonomy, if you come from a wealthy or [an] [[Aristocracy|aristocratic]] background. You simply need to disown your [[Social status|status]] and champion the poor and [the] downtrodden [...]. [A]utonomy is much harder to demonstrate if you come from a poor or [[Proletariat|proletarian]] background [...], [thus] calls to join the wealthy in common cause appear to betray one's class origins.
<ref>{{cite book|title=The Intellectual: The Positive Power of Negative Thinking|last=Fuller|first=Steve|author-link=Steve Fuller (sociologist)|date=2005|publisher=Icon|location=Cambridge}}</ref>{{rp|113–4}}}}