SOCY 325 Lecture Notes - Symbolic Capital, Economic Capital, Social Capital
21 Dec 2013
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A comprehensive theory that integrates structure and agency. Focusing on the structural component of his theory. We are born into society with a set of structures. They constrain shape and enable our lives. Bourdieu focuses on capital: your skills and resources determine where you sit on a field. Your resources is what allows you to succeed. Different types of capital: economic capital, cultural capital 3 forms, social capital - social network, symbolic capital - In the social world there are objective structures independant of the will consciousness of agents: they are capable of guiding and constraining their practices, we are born into a society. There are also constraining structures that are symbolic, such as language. We construct our world but within pre existing structures: the world is space, field, or structures. All the same: the social world occurs in a space, a space that is a field with different positions that interact with each other.
