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