SOCI 3630 Lecture Notes - Pierre Bourdieu, Cultural Capital, Symbolic Power
7 Nov 2013
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Education, cultural capital, and issues of power: pierre. Pierre bourdieu, 1930-2002: sociology is the study of power . He tries to synthesize traditional opposites such as: motivated by creative strategizing and improvisation: theory and practice, practice. : everyday activity aimed at securing resources (ex. Identifying persistent inequalities: success: exploring how one generation of class ensures that it reproduces itself and passes on its privileges to the next generation. (social. This takes place in 3 forms: forms of knowledge; skills; education, attitudes: the embodied state: linguistic knowledge (including foreign languages), mode of speech, knowledge of art. November 6th, 2013: the objectified state: physical possessions that signal, the institutionalized state: when knowledge becomes possession of cultural capital (books, paintings, computer, etc. ) indorsed by an institution such as york university (academic credentials, diplomas, degrees, awards) (ex. Language & symbolic power, p. 163) product (ex.
