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Bourdieu ((Consumption (Properties & property which individuals &…
Bourdieu
Consumption
Properties & property which individuals & groups
surround themselves, houses, furniture
Taste is a matchmaker
Taste of freedom & the tastes of necessity
5 Major Phases:
1) An early phase on Algeria and Bearn peasantry
2) Looking at education and class reproduction
3) Analysing social practice & domination
4) Foregrounding symbolic power
5) Work becomes increasingly an overt political intervention
focus on modes of domination, their dissimulation and reproduction within specific empirical domains
Social Class
By the volume of capital an agent has
By the type of capital that agent has or its composition
as economic or cultural capital
By the change in these two properties over time
or a persons social trajectory
3 Major class:
The dominant class
The middle class
The Dominated class
Distinction --> social critique of the judgement of taste
-> Classification - social nature of the categories - power
" Taste classifies & its classifies the classifier
- Taste is a relational Phenomenon
Three fold division
• Professionals - high cultural capital (cc) & economic cap (ec)
Culturally & economically most expensive & most prestigious activated
• Secondary teachers high cc & low ec
Reading, philosophical, political works
• Employers (low cc & high ec)
Hunting or betting, business trips, expense account lunches