Pierre Bourdieu on class

Pierre Bourdieu
1. 1930-2002
2. Trained as a philosopher, began career as an anthropologist
3. wrote on: education, language, politics, gender, TV and other topics
4. Famous for work on class in distinction(1984)
Everyday life in Society
1. we inhabit multiple 'fields
  1. Semi-autonomous social spaces defined by relationships
2. each field requires a Habitus
  1. A set of dispositions or feel for the game
Getting ahead in our field - capital
1. Succeeding in our field requires 'position taking' We take our position via the use of capital
2. economic
  1. money for exchange
3. social
  1. connections and networks
  2. help us 'get ahead'
  3. the old boys network
4. cultural
  1. the way we dress, act, talk etc
  2. three types
    1. objectified
      1. objects we own which are seen as exclusive and only fully 'appreciated' by some (not necessarily expensive)
    2. institutionalised
      1. marks of approval from institutions(degrees, qualifications, honours etc.)
    3. embodied
      1. the way we act, dress, talk, eat, drink and the things we discuss, eat and drink
  3. need to give a convincing performance
  4. culture of the dominant (middle) class is valued as seen as worthwhile
    1. culture of the dominated (working) class is seen as vulgar
      1. symbolic violence ensures that working class cultural capital is seen as worthless
    2. Those who have middle class cultural capital see it as natural when it is learnt
      1. middle class cultural capital performed convincingly is symbolic cultural capital
    3. middle class cultural capital is symbolic capital which can be used to get ahead in multiple fields by providing the appropriate habitus
  5. cultural capital gives us a sense of our place
5. Class is determined by our ownership of capital, especially cultural capital
6. can be combined, and exchanged with economic and social capital
Class Re-production in education
1. education as a middle class field, teaching as a middle class profession with a middle class habitus
2. middle class children already have the objectified and embodied cultural capitalism
3. institutionalised form only goes to those who have, or learn, the middle class habitus
4. Reay et al. (2001) choices of degree or degree of choices
  1. cultural capital and class influenced 'choice' of university
Class conflict
1. conflict occurs via symbolic violence
2. middle class dominance of public life means working class culture is condemned in public and seen as problematic
3. McRobbie (2005)
  1. Notes on what not to war

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