Sociology 2240E Lecture 3: bourdieu
7 Feb 2017
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His work on habitus and the forms of capital are forms of critiquing durkheim"s idea of inheritance. He is struggling to deal with the problem of agency and structure. He is on the structure side everything that he talks about seems to indicate that we are reactors within the social process. Habitus: economic capital, cultural capital formed in our minds at the age of 5. Cultural capital is fundamentally important in the nature of social stratification. Not just money but through the tastes we have. We enter into various fields and compete with one another. Cultural capital social capital = opportunities for people symbolic capital. Doesn"t care about the individual being successful but the overall product of the social world. Getting rid of inheritance doesn"t change anything. People who are thoughtful, brilliant and impressive. People like this have an advantage in the contests going on. Person who is more popular example.
