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ICC: Cultural Capital (1) BOURDIEU: (OTHER CAPITALS: (ECONOMIC CAPITAL:
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ICC: Cultural Capital
1) BOURDIEU:
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We signal our position within a field via practices/ cultural markers such as language / accent / style of dress etc
Social Space is divided into Fields (made of a unique set of rules, knowledges, and forms of capital):
e.g.- institutions (school, work, universities), social groups
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Body is the site of social meaning- how we talk laugh walk stand etc- REVEALS CLASS RELTIONSHIPS BETWEEN GROUPS
Habitus = the physical embodiment of cultural capital, deeply ingrained habits, skills, and dispositions that we possess due to our life experiences.
ELIAS: "To be civilised"
1500s- Bodily gestures/dress/manners 'outward behaviour'- BEGINS TO BE SEEN AS EXPRESSION OF INNER SELF
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ABOUT CC:
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3 STATES OF CC:
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Objectified state: Cultural goods, books, paintings,clothes etc
Institutionalised state: Institutions that can enable people to enhance their prior collection of CC (school)
EDUCATION:
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M/C parents transmit CC (dominant culture) to children and they do better at school as it is the dominant culture the school portrays-M/C children are familiar with this
PROBLEM WITH 'NATURAL TALENT'-M/C children have unfair leverage over W/C children from the start due to CC and so achieve/get praised more
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Access to educational qualifications in the FIELD OF EDUCATION- is increasingly important to maintain ones position in social hierarchy
BOURDIEU CRITIQUES
If advantages are given to those in positions of power and advantage then the dominant classes ALWAYS WIN- self-fulfilling prophecy??
Bourdieu describes how social groups are LOCKED INTO CYCLES OF DEPRIVATION&DIsADVANTAGE- little possibility for social change.
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Bourdieu underestimates agency and reflexivity within habitus asit involves resistance as well as compliance. (I.E.-NOT OBEYING CLASS IDEALS OR PEOPLE HAVING HIGHER CC NOT ASSOCIATED WITH THEIR CLASS)
:smiley: SAYER: people CAN be relfexive and deliberate on their situation &strive to CHANGE THEIR OWN HABITUS
-Rather than Bourdieus fixed embodiment of CC
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CULTURAL CAPITAL DEFINED AS: the collection of symbolic elements such as skills, tastes, clothing, mannerisms, material belongings, credentials, etc. that one acquires through being part of a particular social class