CIVE 463 Lecture 1: Class Notes 1
25 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Career Theory & Development
• Inheritance
o Ascription
▪ Ascriptive Characteristics
▪ Why we study it?
• Personal
• Organizational
• Societal
o Social Class
▪ What is it?
• How to measure it?
o No Agreement on how to measure it, but most people
have a general sense of the meaning
o Economist: Like Income
▪ Intergenerational income elasticity: % change in
childs icoe for a 1% chage i paret icoe
(mobility high=rigid)
• Often father-son
• When is it measure
• Which counties have highest? Lowest? See
next slide
o Correlation btw Income Inequality
and intergenerational elasticity
o Sociologist: Like occupation
▪ Occupational Prestige Score
▪ Erikson-Goldthorpe Class Schema
• Likely to get similar job to your parent
o Bourdieu
▪ Cultural Capital
• Objectified: Possessions
• Embodied: Accent, etc. => Habitus
• Institutionalized: Credentials and qualifications
▪ Field
▪ Habitus
• Feel for the gae
o It is culturally developed, and not natural
• Tastes
o Student Reading
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