Suddenly stylish? Situationalism versus Pierre Bourdieu (and appendix with coding task done)

Pierre Bourdieu proposes that irrelevant stylistic factors play a role in who progresses in various careers, various fields. “You may be as good a researcher as me, or better, but I progress, because I have an elegant style, say. How to do this cannot be captured in rules, for you to learn, unfortunately, and usually requires upbringing in a privileged social class” - that is a Bourdieusian way of thinking. Situationalism is a theory from psychology which denies that there are character differences between human beings: humans are the same but behave differently because of their different situations; if you were in my situation, you would behave as I do. Situationalism poses a challenge to Bourdieu: “A style that pleases the selector simply comes if one has done more reading, say, and so selection based on stylistic factors as well is acceptable” a situationalist might argue. I consider a philosophical response to this argument.