SOCY 303 Lecture 4: Socy 303 lecture January 24

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 303
• Professor: Andrew Silver

Document Summary

Key question: how are professions able to maintain their claims to authority, their autonomy, their expert knowledge in changing times: globalization increasingly globalized division of labour; professional work in. Authority over knowledge claims (parkin, 1979: most powerful groups in society have authority over knowledge claims, closure and exclusion key to being part of dominant groups setting up boundaries; once groups achieve closure, they can practice exclusion. Getting ahead in banking work: how does knowing about the beatles or golf help senior commercial bankers become. Vice presidents: cultural capital can be used at work to build better relationships and get ahead, related to social capital helps extend their networks, economic capital knowledge of playing golf. Authority and capital: what factors shape who gets access to powerful, dominant groups, masculinity, femininity, for bourdieu, power related to acquisition/accumulation of capitals, power relational and symbolic.