SOCI 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Pierre Bourdieu, Doxa, Economic Capital
6 Nov 2017
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Class: relates to one"s relative socioeconomic positioning within the capitalist societal hierarchy. Why don"t we like to talk about class: mid 1800"s - cold war political - move towards communism. Made topic of class a dirty topic class = communist. People with power don"t want to talk about social class being an issue. Class as a zombie concept: ulrich beck and the risk society. Global risks are shared risks therefore not a class society: nuclear bombing - shared (we are all effected, pollution - shared. However, lower class people will me more impacted: anthony: focuses on risks society that is preoccupied with future events for safety, risk needs to harm something. Capitalist class struggle: bourgeoisie (ear $ through the control the nears if production, proletariat (earn $ through wage labour - produce surplus value on behalf of bourgeoisie, surplus value - access amount of product.
