SOC102H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cultural Capital, Upper Class, Class Conflict
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Invention of culture of ___ and culture of poverty. Different ethnic groups are having a hard time to move up the structure. No physiological discern on class culture but gender. Difficult to make someone introduce the idea of their membership to a social class (make them aware) Hard to recognize that they share same goals and same interest. Class differentiation is complex than any other groups. Class is created by economic relationships (have and have not) Veblen interested in upper class (how they live?) Might be a way of performing a class as others cannot. Have someone higher to serve you shows power and authority. Bourdieu generalized and talked about cultural capital. Cultural capital gives the title on who gets the head and so forth. 3 classes: high, mid, low according to orwell communist (point view on marx) Credential, learn how to dress (upper-class way) Middle class not falling possible rising.
