SOC263H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: The Power Elite, Neoliberalism, Cultural Capital
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Distinction: a social critique of the judgment of taste (bourdieu,1979) Tastes preferences of individuals in different social classes. We learn to have a distaste of those who are lower than us. Higher value on self-fulfillment (upper class) - dishonesty. Higher value on honesty (lower class) - what makes you happy. Habitist - the habits of speech, work, lifestyle. How cultivated disposition and cultural competence are revealed through the consumption of good. Like every sort of taste, it unites and separates. Being the product of the conditioning associated with a particular class of conditions of existence, it unites all those who are the product of similar conditions while distinguishing them from all others. And it distinguishes in an essential way, since taste is the basis of all that one has people and things and all that one is for others, whereby one classifies oneself and is classified by others . We are a product of the social class we"re part of.
