SOCIOL 3NN3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Pierre Bourdieu, Cultural Capital, Contemporary Sociology
12 Apr 2020
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Learning outcomes: articulate the cultural capital thesis, explain how cultural knowledge acts a symbol of class belonging, identify how cultural knowledge is used as a resource for conscious and unconscious class reproduction. Include social support, job info, financial capital: bourdieu posits that differences in cultural knowledge are a key mechanism by which class inequalities are perpetuated. Argue that people have different preferences, values, habits, and cultural knowledge (e. g. knowledge of high culture: passed down through the family, preferences/values/habits are different depending on social class, 2. Assumption that the kinds of cultural knowledge that people in higher status or class groups have is different from the cultural knowledge that lower social groups have: 2. Both are convertible; can be exchanged for something else. Both are unevenly distributed across the population: some have more capital than others people gain access to higher-paying jobs, 2.
